Garry Grossman
Fenwick & West LLP
Garry S. Grossman is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in high technology matters where he heads the firm's Government Contracts and Federal Technology Transfer practice. He represents Government contractors and subcontractors in protecting their intellectual property rights in software and technical data (data rights), negotiation of B2G transactions, GSA schedule, and arbitration/litigation of bid protests and contract performance disputes.
His technology transfer representation includes extracting technology (licenses) from Federal laboratories to startup companies and leveraging company resources, including intellectual property, through the use of direct Government investment, CRADAs, SBIRs, STTRs, procurement contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and "other transactions" with Federal agencies, such as DOD, DOE labs (e.g., Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, ARL), and NIH, as well as university licensing. He also represents companies in commercial technology licensing in IT, software, and life sciences.
His clients are both large and emerging companies. Representative clients for whom he has worked include Intuit, DataCore Software Corporation, Trimble Navigation, Paratek Microwave, Vaxgen, Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, and Cellegy Pharmaceuticals.
Before entering legal practice, Mr. Grossman served as the Information Policy Coordinator in the Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also worked in the medical computing field as a consultant, research associate, system designer, and systems analyst/programmer for the Cardiovascular Unit of Toronto General Hospital, the Presbyterian University Hospital of Pittsburgh, and City/County of San Francisco Medical Compensation Plan.
Mr. Grossman graduated, with high honors, from George Washington University Law School (1982), where he was awarded the Order of the Coif. He also holds an M. Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto (1978). He received an A.B. in Computer and Communications Sciences, with honors, from the University of Michigan (1973).