Aaron Levine specializes in assisting clients with safeguarding and capitalizing on their intellectual property assets. Whether these assets encompass patents, software, trade secrets, or proprietary data, Aaron's experience lies in ensuring their protection and monetization.
Operating across a wide array of technological disciplines and business models, Aaron excels in crafting and negotiating intricate agreements that revolve around intellectual property. These agreements include licenses, transfers, AI/ML service and training data licenses, software development agreements, hosting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, privacy policies, terms of service, and similar documents.
Of note, Aaron has adeptly represented both prominent research universities, hospitals, and their industry collaborators in the negotiation and drafting of sponsored research agreements, collaboration agreements, and the subsequent licensing and usage agreements stemming from these partnerships.
Aaron also lends his support to clients by skillfully navigating complex terrains like Open Source Software, AI/ML adoption and implementation challenges, and Privacy and Data Security concerns. His involvement ranges from policy formulation and agreement negotiation to addressing mitigation, compliance, enforcement matters, internal audits, training, and providing intellectual property insights for significant transactions in support of the Firm's Corporate and Finance practice groups.
Furthermore, Aaron boasts a comprehensive legal background, having successfully advocated for both plaintiffs and defendants in patent infringement cases before the U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
In the realm of education, Aaron has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law School, where he taught a class in Privacy and Data Security. Currently, Aaron serves as a Co-Chair for the Privacy, Data Security, and e-Commerce Committee within the Business Law Section of the Texas State Bar Association.
Aaron's legal and technical experience encompasses an array of diverse technological sectors, including:
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (with experience dating back to 1994)
• Chemical and nanotechnology
• Down-hole tools and MWD/LWD technology
• Medical devices and orthopedic implants, spanning spinal implant systems and joint replacement implants
• Telematics, GPS, and location-based services
• Automotive components
• Satellite communications
• Wireless antennas
• Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers