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Partner, DLA Piper US, LLP.
Mark Radcliffe is a partner and co-chair of the Technology and Sourcing Group of DLA Piper USA, LLP. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Radcliffe's practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters.
He has worked with many open source companies and is Chair of the Open Source Industry Group at the firm. He assisted Sun Microsystems in open sourcing the Solaris operating system and drafting the CDDL. And he represents other large companies in their open source matters including eBay, Accenture, Palm and Sony. He represents many open source startups including SugarCRM (the first venture backed open source applications company), DotNetNuke, Socialtext, Icesoft and rSmart, as their general outside counsel (including their financing and intellectual property matters), and represents Zimbra, Univa, Jaspersoft, Jitterbit, Hyperic, Compiere, Funambol, Clovis Solutions, Intalio, Qlusters and Laszlo Systems for intellectual property matters, He represented Siemens Venture Capital in their investment in MontaVista Software, Inc and Hummer Winblad and Morganthaler in their investment in MuleSource. He also serves as outside General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative and was the Chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing GPLv3.
He has spoken on open source issues at the Open Source Business Conference, Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel, American Corporate Counsel Association and O'Reilly Open Source Conference. In 1997, the National Law Journal named him one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States. . He has been listed in the "The Best Lawyers in America," 2005-2006 edition, as one of Northern California's Top 100 intellectual property attorneys in "Super Lawyers," San Francisco Magazine (2004), as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" in 2004 and Who's Who Legal publication, "The International Who' Who of Business Lawyers" in 2002. In 1998, Harvard Law School designated him a "Distinguished Alumni". He has been quoted on intellectual property matters in Time Magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News and the Daily Variety. Mr. Radcliffe has published articles in such legal magazines as the National Law Journal, Trademark World, Computer Lawyer, California Law Business and Copyright World.
He writes frequently on his blog about open source matters at www.lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com.
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