Entrepreneurs/Experts: David Rickerby

David Rickerby is a Partner at the law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston, MA. He heads the Technology Licensing practice area at Choate and has particular areas of focus in intellectual property counseling, emerging companies, university licensing, distribution channel strategy and open source law.

Rickerby has worked in the technology licensing area for more than a decade. Prior to joining the firm, Rickerby was an associate in the Patent and Intellectual Property Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, an associate in the Corporate and Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Group at Edwards & Angell, a Contracts Manager in the Technology Management Group at Computer Sciences Corporation, and the Legal Manager for PSI International, Inc.

Rickerby's lecture entitled, "Intellectual Property and Licensing" was from a March 9, 2007 Invention To Venture conference sponsored by NCIIA and held at Cornell University.

David Rickerby received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his law degree from the University of Connecticut.