Roger M. Milgrim is a partner of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, New York, New York. He has litigated a wide variety of intellectual property and technologically oriented cases involving trade secrets, copyright, and related issues. He regularly negotiates and prepares complex technology-based transactions, including joint ventures, software development, technology licensing agreements, and computer facilities management arrangements. Recent matters have involved microprocessor technology for elevators, microprocessor and CCD array technology for autofocus cameras, artificial skin and related applications, Ziegler-Natta catalytic technology, and an array of customer list and related confidential business information matters. Mr. Milgrim has extensive domestic and international corporate experience and has represented major U.S., French, and Japanese corporations in corporate acquisitions, joint ventures, technology licensing, distributions arrangements, financing, and other commercial transactions. He is the chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Group.
Mr. Milgrim is the author of two multi volume intellectual property treatises: Trade Secrets (1967), generally regarded as the standard treatise in the field, and Licensing (1991), both of which are currently supplemented. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, since 1974. His professional memberships include serving as past chair of the Patent and Trademark Committee, Antitrust Law Section, New York State Bar Association, and past chair of the Trade Secret Committee, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section, American Bar Association. He lectures frequently to lawyers and business groups nationally.
Eric E. Bensen is a coauthor of Milgrim on Trade Secrets and Milgrim on Licensing, two leading intellectual property treatises, and advises clients on complex intellectual property and litigation management matters. He has taught patent, copyright, and intellectual property licensing classes as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law and was in practice for more than 12 years with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP and Dewey Ballantine LLP. During that time, he led attorney teams in successful litigations of highly complex patent and trade secret cases before the International Trade Commission and a wide range of intellectual property cases in federal and state courts throughout the country. He also negotiated sophisticated copyright, patent and trademark licenses both here and abroad and advised clients on intellectual property licensing issues arising in large transactional matters. His clients have included technology, pharmaceutical, medical device, agricultural, entertainment and consumer product companies.