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Richard Raysman (born October 9, 1946) is a lawyer and early practitioner of the American law of intellectual property.

Education

Raysman was born in New York City, the son of Victor Raysman, a businessman, and Irene Davies Raysman, a professor. He grew up in Valley Stream, New York, a suburb of New York City, attending Valley Stream North High School, where he was a track star in the 440-yard race and a member of the tennis team. He received the Athlete-Scholar award for his senior class in 1964. Raysman received a B.S. in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in Industrial Management at the Sloan School and minored in computer science.

Career

After graduation from M.I.T. Raysman worked at the IBM Corporation as a systems engineer for six years, based in New York City. In that capacity he guided the information technology departments of major corporations in implementing new computer systems and upgrading to more advanced hardware. He programmed in computer languages such as Asssembler, Cobol, RPG and Fortran.

While working for IBM Raysman attended Brooklyn Law School at night. During that time he joined the U.S. Army Reserve, where he served in the Military Police for six years, doing his basic training at Fort Gordon, in Augusta, Georgia.

Being a systems engineer as well as a lawyer, Raysman realized that the law relating to the purchase and use of computer hardware and software was as yet undeveloped. Although academic articles relating to that specialty were starting to appear in law journals, there were no law firms professing to practice in it. Since it was well on its way to becoming an important area of commerce, Raysman decided, in 1978, to start his own firm in New York City specifically to practice Intellectual Property Law. In the following years Raysman wrote articles for the New York Times¹, the Harvard Business Review², and the New York Law Journal³. Raysman's firm, known as Brown, Raysman & Millstein, ultimately grew to 250 lawyers with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Hartford and Toronto. In 2006 Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, as it was then known, merged with the San Francisco law firm of Thelen and became known as Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, having 650 attorneys and offices worldwide. In 2008 Raysman left Thelen and joined the New York law firm of Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, P.C., where he practices today.

Raysman concentrates his practice in international outsourcing transactions, e-commerce issues including copyright, trade secrets and privacy, and litigating intellectual property. His information technology background and understanding of the law have made him uniquely qualified to represent clients on these technology issues. Raysman has litigated numerous reported cases for the New York State and Federal courts. He has been selected by Chambers as one of America's leading outsourcing lawyers⁴.

Raysman continues to published extensively on the topic of Intellectual Property Law, including three treatises as well as newsletters and a monthly column for the New York Law Journal. He is also a regular speaker on this field at numerous conferences, including those sponsored by the International Bar Association, the Outsourcing Interests Group and the Intellectual Technology Law Forum in Europe.

Raysman is admitted to the Connecticut and New York State bars, the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Personal Life

Raysman is married to the former Georgia M. Urbano, a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, who is also the former President and Chair of the Nantucket Preservation Trust. He has four children. His interests include tennis, bridge, early American history and swimming.

Representative Transactions

• Represented AT&T in a $1.2 billion outsourcing transaction with Textron Corp.
• Represented the New York City Transit Agency and Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the $1 billion acquisition of the METROCARD automated fare collection system.
• Represented Allied Signal/Honeywell in a $500 million international outsourcing of information technology to IBM Corp.
• Represented The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York city in a $350 million outsourcing with IBM Corp.

Professional Affiliations

• New York State Bar Association (Past Chair, Business Law Section; Past Chair, Finance Comittee)
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Patent Law Committee)
• International Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property and Technology Sections)
• Licensing Executives Society (Co-Chair, New York City Chapter)
• M.I.T. Enterprise Forum (New York City Chapter, Secretary and Member of the Board)
• International Technology Law Association (former Director)

Speeches

• Privacy Issues in Outsourcing, Sourcing Interests Group, Las Vegas (2008)
• International Infrastructure Outsourcing, LawLine, New York City (2008)
• International Internet Issues, International Technology Law Forum, Versailles, France (2008)
• Ethics for Copyright and Trademark Lawyers, Practising Law Institute, New York City (2007)
• Entertainment Copyright Issues, International Bar Association, Singapore (2007)
• How IP Value Can Be Destroyed, International Bar Association, Chicago, IL (2006)
• Technology Transfers and Global Sourcing, Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC (2006)
• International Copyright Issues, Law Seminars International, Seattle, WA (2006)

Publications

• Computer Law: Drafting and negotiating Forms and Agreements (co-author of two-volume treatise updated twice annually)
• Intellectual Property Licensing: Forms and Analysis (co-author of treatise updated twice annually)
• Emerging Technologies and the Law: Forms and Analysis (co-author of two-volume treatise updated twice annually)

Footnotes

1. Of Computers and the Law, New York Times, September 14, 1980
2. Manager Involvement Needed in Computer Selection (1981) and Don't Rush to Court When Your Computer Fails (1984), Harvard Business Review
3. Computer Law, co-author of monthly column in the New York Law Journal since 1981
4. Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, 2008