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Lee Tiedrich’s practice focuses on a broad range of intellectual property and technology transaction matters. She has been recognized in Legal 500 as a Leading Lawyer for patent licensing and transactions and is recommended in Legal 500 for her “ability to identify critical issues” and her “extremely strong work ethic.”
Ms. Tiedrich has extensive experience negotiating complex intellectual property acquisition, licensing, and development agreements, including software and online services agreements, patent licenses, content and media agreements, outsourcing agreements, branding and trademark license agreements, and hardware development agreements. She also regularly counsels clients on strategic issues, such as developing and maintaining intellectual property portfolios and evaluating intellectual property-related assets and risks in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions. Her work spans several industries, including communications and media, life sciences, consumer products, and clean energy. She is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Representative Matters
- Represented National Geographic Society in the sale of its Hampton Brown school publishing business to Cengage Learning, Inc.
- King Pharmaceuticals in its $3.6 billion merger with Pfizer.
- Medarex in its $2.4 billion merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
- OptiSolar in its $400 million sale of it project development business to First Solar, Inc.
- Procter & Gamble in its sale of ThermaCare, a leading over-the-counter heatwrap, to Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, a division of Wyeth.
- Another major consumer products company in its strategic acquisition and licensing of patents and other intellectual property important for its next generation products.
- Thomson Reuters in its acquisitions of Information Holdings Inc. (NYSE: IHI) and Solucient.
- TouchTunes, the largest out-of-home digital entertainment network, in its acquisition of White Rabbit Game Studio, creators of PlayPorTT and developers of portable, on-location game systems.
Honors and Rankings
- Recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Legal 500 for IP - Patent Licensing and transactional - US (2010 and 2011)
Pro Bono
- The publisher of Checkbook Magazine in connection its PatientCentral website.
Memberships and Affiliations
- The ABA Section of Science and Technology, Past Council Member and Committee Chair
- Federal Communications Bar Association, past Co-Chair of the Online Communications Committee
Publications and Speeches
- Presentations at the Marcus Evans Software Conference on Software, Patents and Technology Licensing Matters (2005)
- Presentation before the DC Women’s Bar Association on Strategies for Improving the Retention of Women Lawyers (Winter 2006)
- "The State of the District of Columbia Public Schools 2010: A Five Year Update," Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (August 2010), Co-Author
- "The Communications Act - A Legislative History of Major Amendments 1934-1996," Pike & Fisher (1999), Author
- "Competitive Bidding and Personal Communications Services - A New Paradigm for FCC Licensing," 3 CommLaw Conspectus 17, Catholic University (Winter 1995), Co-Author
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