Experience

Jere Webb practices all aspects of intellectual property law, including Internet and e-commerce; marketing, trade regulation and distribution; technology transfer, protection and licensing; trademark and franchise; and international trade. He chairs the firm's eBusiness group and is a member and past chair of the firm's Technology and Intellectual Property group and its Marketing Distribution Law group.

A frequent editor, author and lecturer in his field, Jere is past chair of the Oregon State Bar's statewide Continuing Legal Education Committee and a past member of the Bar's Board of Governors. He is editor of the Bar's five volume work Advising Oregon Businesses (2009). He has represented both public and private companies in hundreds of transactions involving transfer, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property rights, and regularly deals with complex distribution arrangements both domestic and foreign.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America for the past 12 years
• Listed in both Oregon Super Lawyers® and Portland's Top Lawyers
• Member, Board of Governors, Oregon State Bar, 1986-1989
• Member, Board of Directors, Oregon Law Institute
• Founder and member, Board of Directors, Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute
• Past chair, Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Oregon State Bar
• Oregon reporter for Computer Law Association
• Member, Computer Law Association
• Member, Licensing Executives Society
• Member, International Bar Association
• Member, Forum Committee on Franchising, American Bar Association

Presentations

• "Best Practices for Owning and Operating a Winery: Names, Labels and Trademarks," The Seminar Group, San Francisco, California, Mar. 1, 2007; The Seminar Group in Napa, California, Mar. 4, 2008
• "Going Green: Advising Clients in the New World of Sustainability," Oregon Law Institute, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, Apr. 28, 2008
• "Robots and Spiders and Contracts, Oh My! Recent Developments in Enforcing Website Terms of Use," Oregon State Bar Computer and Internet Law Section Luncheon and CLE, Portland, Oregon, May 25, 2005

Publications

• Editor, "Advising Oregon Businesses," Oregon State Bar's five-volume treatise, 1989-2010
• Coauthor, "The Name of the Game: Labels Can Make a Wine; They Can Also Break the Bank if Not Protected," Oregon Wine Press, Nov. 2008
• "What You Need to Know About 'Green' Claims Advertising," TerraLex 2007 (16th edition)
• "The Departing Employee: Competitive Restrictions," "Trade Secrets," "Domain Names" and "Confidentiality Agreements," Advising Oregon Businesses, 2007
• "Delaware Supreme Court Holds That Obtaining the Identity of an Anonymous Internet Poster by a Subpoena Requires Actual Evidence of Defamation, Not Just the 'Good Faith' Standard Applied by Some Other Courts," TerraLex 2006 (13th edition)
• "Website Terms and Conditions Held Applicable to Content Copied by Robot or Spider," TerraLex 2005 (12th edition)
• "Defamation on the Internet: Risks of Getting Hauled into Court in Distant Locations," TerraLex 2005 (12th edition)
• "E-Commerce Developments: Across E Commerce Law on Horseback," Oregon Law Institute, 2005
• "What Every Business Should Know About Advertising Law," Stoel Rives seminar, 2003
• "Metatags and Trademark Law," E-Commerce Law Report, 2003
• "Web Enabling Your Business: The Legal Issues," seminar presentation at "E Commerce! The New Standard for the Next Millennium," Oregon Law Institute, Nov. 1999
• "The Internet Music Wars: Court Rejects Challenge to Portable MP3 Player," Multimedia & Technology Licensing Law Report, Oct. 1999
• "Trademarks, Cyberspace, and the Internet," Multimedia & Technology Licensing Law Report, Nov. 1996
• "Court Upholds Reverse Engineering Software," TC Newsletter, Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law of the American Bar Association, Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring, 1993
• "Reverse Engineering Software," Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, Jun. 1993, and Software Association of Oregon, Winter 1993
• "Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property Infringement Claims," 7 The Computer Law Association Bulletin 20. 1992
• "Recovery of Damages Under the Lanham Act: A Practitioner's Guide," 4 The Journal of Proprietary Rights 2, Jun. 1992
• "A Survey of the Law of Trade Dress Infringement," Selected Legal Papers, American Intellectual Property Law Association, 1991, also published in The Computer Lawyer, Sep. 1991
• "Intellectual Property Misuse: Recent Developments in the Misuse Doctrine," 4 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 257, Spring 1991, and 73 Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society 339, May 1991
• "Who Owns Computer Software: Joint Authorship Standards Clarified," 12 Computer Law Reporter 732, Jan. 1991
• "International Distribution Agreements," Oregon State Bar, Pacific Northwest Antitrust Institute, 1990
• "United States Trademark Law for Canadian Franchisors," Association of Canadian Franchisors, Vancouver Legal Symposium, Oct. 20, 1989
• "Antitrust Aspects of Technology Licensing and Distribution," Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, 1988
• "Software Protection: New Developments in Protection of 'Look and Feel' of Computer Programs," Marketing & Technology Law, Jul. 1987
• "No Mail Order Clauses: Are They Legal?," 1 International Computer Law Advisor 12, Jan. 1987
• "International Protection of Trade Secrets and Copyrights," prepared for the 1987 International Law and Business Seminar
• "Vertical Market Distribution: Selected Antitrust and Distribution Law Issues," Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, 1986
• "A Practitioner's Guide to Confidentiality Agreements," Trade Secret Law Reporter, Jul. 1985
• "The Application of Antitrust Tying Principles to Computer Software Distribution," The Scott Report, Jul. 1985
• "Antitrust Aspects of Software Distribution," The Computer Lawyer, Jun. 1985
• "Tying Computer Hardware and Software Held Illegal: Another Look at the Digidyne Case," The Computer Users Legal Reporter, 1985
• "Confidentiality Agreements," Advising Oregon Businesses, 2003; 1985
• "The Departing Employee: Competitve Restrictions," Advising Oregon Businesses, 1985
• "Trade Secrets," Advising Oregon Businesses, 2003; 1985
• "Trade Secrets and the Departing Employee," Oregon Law Institute's Business v. Business, Program Materials from the Nov. 1985 Seminar in Portland
• "Antitrust Developments," Oregon Business Law Digest, 1985
• "Tying Computer Hardware and Software Held Illegal: Another Look at the Digidyne Case," 6 The Computer User's Legal Reporter 3, Jan. 1985
• "Computer System Acquisition Agreements," Pacific Rim Computer Law Institute, 1984
• "Copyright Protection of Computer Programs: New Issues," 5 The Computer User's Legal Reporter 1, Dec. 1984
• "Advertising Law," Advising Oregon Businesses, 1984
• "Antitrust Aspects of International Trade," Oct. 1983
• "Employer/Employee Ownership of Technology," presentation at American Electronics Association seminar "Protecting Your Company's Technology," 1983
• "Indemnity and Contribution," Torts, Oregon State Bar, 1981
• "Settlement of the Multiparty Case," Oregon Association of Defense Counsel, 1980
• "Dispossession of Personal Property," Damages, 1980

Education

• University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1969
• Stanford University, A.B., 1966, with distinction

Admissions

• Oregon

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