Bio

John Neclerio is chair of the firm's Technology Transactions, Licensing and Commercial Contracts 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, and privacy and data security. Mr. Neclerio regularly provides general business representation to software, consulting, Internet, e-commerce and technology companies and provides counsel to entities that are licensing or acquiring software or technology related products or services, including advice with respect to agreements to implement open 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 joint ownership rights, but has extensive commercial contracting experience. 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.