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Stuart Irvin advises clients on a wide range of intellectual property and commercial transactions, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, and licensing agreements. He has worked extensively on international sales and distribution arrangements with manufacturers of highly branded goods, including cosmetics, designer apparel, and alcoholic beverages. He has represented software and other technology developers in transactions with licensees and has represented the licensees of software and other technology in their dealings with licensors.
Mr. Irvin has negotiated and drafted complex settlement agreements to resolve disputes over patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property assets. He regularly represent clients in settlement matters involving cases brought by non-practicing entities (trolls) and in connection with the unblocking patent licenses that are given to resolve disputes between competitors. His work in patent settlement transactions includes agreements where the patent license has competition or regulatory ramifications. He advises on patent settlements in matters pending before the International Trade Commission in Section 337 actions and before the District Courts.
Mr. Irvin was involved in many high-profile internet transactions during the bubble years and continues to provide advice to clients on internet content creation and licensing, technology development and acquisition, automated trading platforms, cloud services transactions, data licensing, and other transactions.
Mr. Irvin is qualified to practice law in England and Wales. He serves on the firm's Middle East Committee.
Representative Matters
- Structured transactions and negotiated agreements for Microsoft, The Washington Post, Samsung, Goodyear, Reliance, Kyocera, Shiseido, NFL, Harley-Davidson, Schering-Plough, Bacardi, SPI Group (owner of the Stolichnaya brand), Armani and a number of small- and mid-size companies.
- Advised international environmental organizations in the negotiation and documentation of debt-for-nature swaps, including a deal that reduced the sovereign debt of the Government of Belize to the Government of the United States by half, a transaction in Peru that will help conserve an area of tropical forest that is larger than the State of Virginia, and two transactions in Panama that will help protect thousands of acres in the vital Panama Canal watershed and in the unspoiled Darién gap region.
- Advised The Nature Conservancy in a reforestation project with The Walt Disney Company that will restore native hardwoods to former agricultural land in the Lower Mississippi Valley and help Disney meet its goal of having zero net direct greenhouse gas emissions as an enterprise.
Previous Experience
- Matsuo & Kosugi, Tokyo, Foreign Law Advisor (1993-1994)
Honors and Rankings
- IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2012-2013)
- Legal 500 US (2013)
- Lifetime Achievement Award, The Nature Conservancy (shared with Evan Cox and the Covington team) (2008)
- National Legal Advocate for Children Award, the Child Welfare League of America (1997)
Pro Bono
- Counsel to Developments in Literacy, a US nonprofit founded to provide education to disadvantaged children, especially girls, in the underdeveloped regions of Pakistan.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Board of Trustees, Arts & Technology Academy, a DC public charter school located in Ward 7 (2009-2013).
- National Law School of India University in Bangalore, Visiting Professor (International Licensing Transactions) (2005, 2009)
- Georgetown University Law Center, Adjunct Professor of Law (International Business Transactions) (1996-1998)
Publications and Speeches
- "Managing the Big Legal Issues with Big Data," Covington Webinar (5/3/2012)
- "EPA Issues Final Mandatory GHG Reporting Rule," Covington E-Alert (9/25/2009), Co-Author
- "So, You Want to Join the Team; Teaming Agreements in Government Contracting," National Small Business Federal Procurement Summit (8/17/2006)
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