Lee Tiedrich

Lee Tiedrich represents clients on a broad range of intellectual property and technology transaction matters. She has been recognized in Legal 500 as a Leading Lawyer for patent licensing and transactions and is recommended in Legal 500 for her “ability to identify critical issues” and her “extremely strong work ethic.” Ms. Tiedrich is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Tiedrich has extensive experience negotiating complex intellectual property acquisition, licensing, and development agreements, including software and online services agreements, patent licenses, content and media agreements, cloud services and data agreements, branding and trademark license agreements, intellectual property settlement agreements, and hardware development agreements. She also regularly counsels clients on strategic issues, such as developing and maintaining intellectual property portfolios and evaluating intellectual property-related assets and risks in connection with mergers, acquisitions, investments, capital markets transactions and other transactions. Her work spans several industries, including communications and media, life sciences, consumer products, and clean energy. She has experience counseling both private and public companies, as well as venture capital firms and corporate venture groups in their investments. Ms. Tiedrich co-chair’s the firm’s Diversity Committee. REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS Grupo Financiero Banorte, the Mexican financial group, and its affiliate Afore XXI Banorte in the $1.6 billion acquisition of Afore Bancomer from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the Spanish bank, to create Mexico’s largest pension fund. Meda AB in its acquisition of MidNite, an OTC sleep aid product. Thomson Reuters Corporation in the divestiture of its Healthcare business to affiliates of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion. National Geographic Society in the sale of its Hampton Brown school publishing business to Cengage Learning, Inc. King Pharmaceuticals in its $3.6 billion merger with Pfizer. Medarex in its $2.4 billion merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb. OptiSolar in its $400 million sale of it project development business to First Solar, Inc. Procter & Gamble in its sale of ThermaCare, a leading over-the-counter heatwrap, to Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, a division of Wyeth. The UK-based Dunlop Slazenger Group in its disposition of the Maxfli golf brand and related assets to Taylor Made Golf Company. Another major consumer products company in its strategic acquisition and licensing of patents and other intellectual property important for its next generation products. More Representative Matters HONORS AND RANKINGS Washington DC Super Lawyer, Intellectual Property (2013) IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners (2012) Recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Legal 500 for IP - Patent Licensing and transactional - US (2010-2012) PRO BONO Learning and Leadership in Families, Inc. (d/b/a LearnLead), an organization that supports school readiness and success in the early grades. "The State of the District of Columbia Public Schools 2010: A Five Year Update," Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (August 2010), Co-Author The publisher of Checkbook Magazine in connection its PatientCentral website. MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS Work Life Law Center, UC Hastings College of the Law, Board Member The ABA Section of Science and Technology, Past Council Member and Committee Chair Federal Communications Bar Association, past Co-Chair of the Online Communications Committee PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES "Managing the Big Legal Issues with Big Data," Covington Webinar (5/3/2012) Presentations at the Marcus Evans Software Conference on Software, Patents and Technology Licensing Matters (2005) Presentation before the DC Women’s Bar Association on Strategies for Improving the Retention of Women Lawyers (Winter 2006) "The Communications Act - A Legislative History of Major Amendments 1934-1996," Pike & Fisher (1999), Author "Competitive Bidding and Personal Communications Services - A New Paradigm for FCC Licensing," 3 CommLaw Conspectus 17, Catholic University (Winter 1995), Co-Author "The National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the Electronic Superhighway," 46 Federal Communications Law Journal 397 (Indiana University) (1994), Co-Author