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Evan Cox is a partner in the firm's intellectual property and antitrust practices resident in the San Francisco office. He has previously practiced in the firm's Washington, DC and London offices.
His transactional and advisory practice involves representation of technology companies in the structuring and negotiation of licensing, distribution, joint venture, standards-setting, and other intellectual property-driven relationships. He counsels clients on US antitrust and European Union competition law matters including intellectual property licensing, standards-setting, patent pools, and mergers and acquisitions and has represented clients before the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the European Union's Directorate General for Competition.
He has worked closely with leading companies and trade associations in the software, publishing, hardware, and pharmaceutical industries on anti-piracy, anti-counterfeiting, and digital rights management strategies and enforcement. He supervises an in-house team of internet investigators that provide clients with worldwide forensic and notice and takedown capabilities, and provides counseling and litigation support on secondary liability and anti-circumvention issues under the DMCA and comparable international legislation. He has comprehensive experience with copy protection and digital rights management licensing schemes, standards-setting activities, and legislative initiatives.
Representative Matters
- Boeing, providing compliance advice and negotiating several standard setting agreements relating to its e-Business activities.
- Microsoft, representing it in negotiations with seven other major companies from the personal computer, consumer electronics and motion picture industries to develop and license the Advanced Access Content System, a new digital rights management technology standard for high definition movie and other content on optical disks.
- The Business Software Alliance, co-authoring its brief amicus curiae to the US Supreme Court in the Grokster case on behalf of the leading members of the commercial software and computer hardware industries.
Pro Bono
- The Nature Conservancy, helping to provide advice on various regulatory compliance issues in support of its activities in California, Hawaii and the Asia-Pacific region.
- The California Medical Association, contributing to a brief amicus curiae to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Planned Parenthood Federation of America v. Ashcroft.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Advisory Board Member
- Center for Youth Development Through Law (a group that provides paid summer internships, legal-oriented courses, and life skills workshops to inspire at-risk students from East Bay high schools to pursue college education), Board Member
- Boalt Hall Alumni Association, Board Member
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