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Donald Ghostlaw

Donald Ghostlaw co-teaches (with Professor John Tomich) the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic, and the IP Law Advanced Fieldwork Clinic. Professor Ghostlaw has a B.S. in Computer Science from Boston College, and a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law, where he founded the school's Computer Law Society.

Professor Ghostlaw is an experienced IP and business lawyer with more than twenty years of practice experience, including eleven at Aetna. He has previously established the in-house legal departments for three emerging growth software vendors, and has run his own practice specializing in the representation of high technology and small businesses, artists, authors and musicians. Prior to arriving at the Law School, Professor Ghostlaw most recently served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Stamford, Connecticut-based OutlookSoft Corporation, a venture-backed software vendor recently acquired by SAP. His work at OutlookSoft included managing all legal aspects of software licensing and distributor transactions, a variety of corporate acquisitions, several rounds of venture capital funding, European expansion into Germany, France, Italy and the U.K., and OutlookSoft's successful defense of a patent infringement action before a jury in the Eastern District of Texas.

Professor Ghostlaw is a member of the Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York state bars, and the federal district courts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He also belongs to several professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section; the Connecticut Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section; the Association of Corporate Counsel; and, the Association of University Technology Managers.

Professor Ghostlaw's pro-bono work includes serving as guardian for several mentally handicapped adults, and providing legal services to a local charitable organization focused on assisting leukemia patients and their families.

Recent Courses

• Clinic: Intellectual Property (Spring 2009)
• Clinic: Intellectual Property (Fall 2008)
• Clinic: IP/Entrepren Adv Fldwk (Fall 2008)
• Clinic: IP/Entrepren Adv Fldwk (Summer 2008)
• Clinic: Intellectual Property (Spring 2008)
• Clinic: IP/Entrepren Adv Fldwk (Spring 2008)