Butler, Ronald P.

Jeffrey Butler advises domestic and international companies on patent and other IP matters. He has significant experience in litigation and adversarial matters regarding all aspects of U.S. intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, antitrust, unfair competition, copyright, and computer law. He counsels clients on domestic and international licensing, IP acquisition, and IP exploitation and also develops global IP strategies for clients.

Jeffrey represents major European companies in patent, copyright, trade secret, and breach-of-contract matters. In addition, he provides strategic advice to a host of European-based and other international companies in areas such as global patent exploitation, global IP acquisition, and global defense of IP rights.

He has authored and coauthored articles on numerous U.S. and international IP and litigation topics, including new developments in U.S. patent and trademark law, antitrust and unfair competition, copyright law, moral rights, computer law, and depositions and discovery. He has presented papers, seminars, and symposia on those subjects in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Jeffrey is based in New York City and Frankfurt. He previously spent six years living and practicing U.S. law in Germany. He is a member of the board of directors of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association and is a member of the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Deutsch-Amerikanische Juristen-Vereinigung e.V. (DAJV), GRUR, VPP, and the Federal Bar Council. He also is a "solicitor" member of the Hon. William C. Conner Inn of Court, an American Inn of Court dedicated to IP law.