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Practice Experience

Mr. Wettan works in White & Case's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Wettan was an Assistant Attorney General in the New York Office of the Attorney General's Antitrust Bureau, where he was a member of the trial team in U.S. et al. v. Oracle, assisted in enforcing the settlement in New York v. Microsoft, and prosecuted illegal shill-bidding on e-Bay. Prior to joining the Office of the Attorney General, Mr. Wettan clerked for United States District Judge Robert Pratt in the Southern District of Iowa and worked for two years in the Intellectual Property Litigation practice of another leading firm in Palo Alto, California.

Since joining White & Case, Mr. Wettan has focused on a variety of intellectual property and technology-related transactional matters in industries ranging from health care to financial services to energy. Such matters have included patent license and joint development agreements, technology transfer agreements, trademark license agreements, transition services agreements and outsourcing agreements, as well as advising on intellectual property issues relating to diligence, transfer, representations and warranties in dozens of M&A and bank finance deals. Mr. Wettan's clients have included Visa Inc., Cosan S/A, ConvaTec Inc., and ABN AMRO Bank N.V., among others. Mr. Wettan has also continued to work on antitrust litigation matters, as well as counsel clients on antitrust issues.

Bars and Courts
US District Court for the Northern District of California, 2004
New York State Bar, 2004
California State Bar, 1999

Education
ScB, Brown University, Applied Math/Economics, 1995
JD, Columbia Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition Semi-finalist, John M. Olin Fellow for Law and Economics, 1999
MA, Economics, San Francisco State University

Professional Associations and Memberships
Member of the American Constitution Society
Former, member of the Association for the Bar of the City of New York’s Information Technology Law Committee

Publications
"The Little License That Could: Dangers of Using Open-Source Code After Jacobsen v. Katzer," The Intellectual Property Strategist, April 2009

Speaking Engagements
Moderated panel on maintaining good communications between business leaders, in-house counsel and outside counsel while negotiating an outsourcing transaction at East Coast Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum, hosted by the Harvard Club and sponsored by American Lawyer Media, May 2008
Moderated panel entitled "Is Eliot Spitzer Doing the Right Thing" with former Independent Counsel Robert Ray, former Maine Attorney General Jim Tierney, and Marc Greenwald at New York University School of Law, sponsored by the American Constitution Society, April 2006
Participated in a panel on careers in public service and the private sector at Columbia Law School, sponsored by the American Constitution Society, 2005
Participated in brown bag discussion with New York University School of Law L.L.M. program in Trade Regulation on U.S. v. Oracle, 2005
Participated in a panel jointly sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association on U.S. v. Oracle, 2004
Participated in a panel at Columbia Law School on careers at state Attorneys Generals’ offices, 2004
Participated in a panel sponsored by the American Bar Association Antitrust Section on careers in antitrust law, 2003

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States