Fish & Richardson - Silicon Valley (Redwood City)
Richard Allan Horning is a Principal in the Venture and Technology Group at Fish & Richardson P.C., in Redwood City, California. Richard has been representing technology companies in Silicon Valley, and globally, since 1970. He has worked with a wide spectrum of clients, from the classic "garage-based" start-up to Fortune 50 multi-nationals. He specializes in counseling high technology companies in all stages of development on domestic and international issues, including financing growth and development, securing, protecting and licensing intellectual property rights, supply and distribution relationships including antitrust and unfair competition considerations, and dispute resolution affecting technology driven industries.
He has been a guest lecturer at Universities of Lausanne, Modena, UCLA, NYU, Columbia, Chalmers University Center for Intellectual Property (Goteborg), Webster University (Geneva), Swedish Institute of Management Executive Program (Stanford), Catholic University of Argentina (Buenos Aires), and the Center for International Legal Studies (Salzberg). He was honored by LMA San Francisco as the Rella Lossy Award Winner for Outstanding Law Firm Marketing Attorney in 2004. He was elected by his peers for inclusion in the Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers, and as a Northern California Intellectual Property Super Lawyer in 2004 and 2005. De Facto, a magazine covering the Nordic legal community, labeled him "Mr. Consigliere" in recognition of his work as a close adviser to venture backed start-ups.
He is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the International Technology Law Association (f/k/a Computer Law Association), and serves on the Advisory Boards of BNA Electronic Information & Policy Law Reporter, E-Commerce Law Report, E-Commerce Law Journal, World E-Business Law Report, Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford and MentoNet.
He has authored numerous articles on Internet law, including "Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures: A Global Progress Report", 20 COMM/ENT 101 (2000), "Contracting Over the Internet" in ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN PRACTICE: THE WORLD BUSINESS AGENDA FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (ICC 1997), "The Enforceability of Contracts Negotiated in Cyberspace," 5 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 109 (1997), and "Has HAL Signed a Contract: The Statute of Frauds in Cyberspace", 12 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 253 (1996), and international arbitration, including "The Use of New Means of Communication in Aid of the Acceleration of International Arbitration", IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: THE NEED FOR SPEED AND TRUST (ICC 1998), "Interim Measures of Protection: Security for Claims and Costs; And Commentary on the WIPO Emergency Relief Rules (In Toto)", 9 AMERICAN REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION 155 (1998), "Interim Relief in International Intellectual Property Arbitration", 22 NEW MATTER [No. 1/2] 32 (1997), and "Deferral of Enforcement of New York Convention Awards for Prudential Reasons", [1997] INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION LAW REVIEW No. 1
Education: University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1966); Duke University School of Law (J.D., 1969). Law Clerk to Judge Oliver D. Hamlin, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1969-1970.
He has been a guest lecturer at Universities of Lausanne, Modena, UCLA, NYU, Columbia, Chalmers University Center for Intellectual Property (Goteborg), Webster University (Geneva), Swedish Institute of Management Executive Program (Stanford), Catholic University of Argentina (Buenos Aires), and the Center for International Legal Studies (Salzberg). He was honored by LMA San Francisco as the Rella Lossy Award Winner for Outstanding Law Firm Marketing Attorney in 2004. He was elected by his peers for inclusion in the Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers, and as a Northern California Intellectual Property Super Lawyer in 2004 and 2005. De Facto, a magazine covering the Nordic legal community, labeled him "Mr. Consigliere" in recognition of his work as a close adviser to venture backed start-ups.
He is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the International Technology Law Association (f/k/a Computer Law Association), and serves on the Advisory Boards of BNA Electronic Information & Policy Law Reporter, E-Commerce Law Report, E-Commerce Law Journal, World E-Business Law Report, Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford and MentoNet.
He has authored numerous articles on Internet law, including "Legal Recognition of Digital Signatures: A Global Progress Report", 20 COMM/ENT 101 (2000), "Contracting Over the Internet" in ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN PRACTICE: THE WORLD BUSINESS AGENDA FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (ICC 1997), "The Enforceability of Contracts Negotiated in Cyberspace," 5 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 109 (1997), and "Has HAL Signed a Contract: The Statute of Frauds in Cyberspace", 12 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 253 (1996), and international arbitration, including "The Use of New Means of Communication in Aid of the Acceleration of International Arbitration", IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: THE NEED FOR SPEED AND TRUST (ICC 1998), "Interim Measures of Protection: Security for Claims and Costs; And Commentary on the WIPO Emergency Relief Rules (In Toto)", 9 AMERICAN REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION 155 (1998), "Interim Relief in International Intellectual Property Arbitration", 22 NEW MATTER [No. 1/2] 32 (1997), and "Deferral of Enforcement of New York Convention Awards for Prudential Reasons", [1997] INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION LAW REVIEW No. 1
Education: University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1966); Duke University School of Law (J.D., 1969). Law Clerk to Judge Oliver D. Hamlin, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1969-1970.