John Neclerio Bio

John M. Neclerio is chair of the firm's Technology Transactions, Licensing and Commercial Contracts Group and a member of the firm’s multi-disciplinary AI group and practices in the areas of general business and corporate law, commercial finance, mergers and acquisitions, distribution and franchising law, patent licensing, software licensing, copyright and trade secret law, computer, e-commerce and technology law, including contracting and licensing advice regarding cognitive technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, other emerging technologies, data analytics and big data, and privacy and data security. Mr. Neclerio regularly provides general business representation to, software and software as a service, consulting, Internet, e-commerce and other technology companies, and provides counsel to entities that are licensing or acquiring software or technology related products or services, including strategic advice with respect to agreements to implement innovation strategies or otherwise commercially exploit intellectual property assets. In this respect, Mr. Neclerio is often involved in negotiating agreements implicating intellectual property licensing issues, including patent, copyright, and trade secrets and know-how, and is not only knowledgeable of intellectual property issues in contracting, including issues regarding joint ownership rights, but has extensive commercial contracting experience. Mr. Neclerio is often an attorney at the firm that his colleagues call upon to handle large scale commercial agreement negotiations for clients with agreements involving intellectual property issues and the sale of products and particularly where a company is negotiating with a larger company or the contract involves a company’s intellectual property assets and/or is otherwise strategically important for the company’s business. Over the course of his 20 plus year career as a technology transactions attorney, Mr. Neclerio has gained experience negotiating with in-house legal departments of hundreds of large and well recognized corporations, and has also worked with many companies setting strategy for their approach in contract negotiations. Mr. Neclerio also frequently works with lawyers in the firm's healthcare practice group, and assists hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers with the procurement of IT systems and related vendor services, the drafting and negotiation of IT vendor contracts and software license and services agreements, including contracts regarding electronic health records systems, and issues concerning doing business in an on-line environment, including e-payment systems. He also works on agreements for fintech companies, including merchant processing agreements, and works with several education technology companies.