Mr. Wettan is a member of White & Case's Intellectual Property Practice Group with a focus on IP transactions. Since joining White & Case, Mr. Wettan has focused on a variety of intellectual property and technology-related transactional matters in industries such as software, financial services, energy, and health care. Mr. Wettan has assisted clients with patent license and joint development agreements, technology transfer agreements, payment processing agreements, trademark license agreements, supply and distribution agreements, transition services agreements, and outsourcing agreements, as well as advised on intellectual property issues relating to diligence, transfer, representations and warranties in dozens of M&A, securities 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.

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, he assisted in enforcing the settlement in New York v. Microsoft, and he 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.

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

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

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Constitution Society 
Licensing Executive Society
State Bar of California, IP and Antitrust Sections
American Bar Association
IP and Antitrust Sections
Member of the Association for the Bar of the City of New York's Information Technology Law Committee (2005-2009)

Publications
"Princo v. ITC: The Federal Circuit Gives Standard Setting More Latitude While Narrowing the Patent Misuse Doctrine," New Matter, the Official Publication of the IP Section of the California State Bar, Vol. 35 No. 4 (2010)
"Four Cases and a Business Review Letter: Standard Setting and Patent Rights," New Matter, the Official Publication of the IP Section of the California State Bar, Vol. 35 No. 3 (2010)
"The Time is Now: A Green Technology Patent Program Should be Made Permanent," The Recorder, March 19, 2010 (with Bijal Vakil and Sue F. Xia)
"Get Yer Mitts Off My Savings," Corporate Counsel, February 4, 2010 (with Adam Chernichaw)
"The Little License That Could: Dangers of Using Open-Source Code After Jacobsen v. Katzer," The Intellectual Property Strategist, April 2009

Speaking Engagements
"Trademark and Licensing Issues: Increasing Your Bottom Line in 2011," White & Case seminar, Palo Alto, CA (February 3, 2011)
"Playing By the Rules: Ethical Considerations in Standard Setting," Association of Corporate Counsel, Hard-to-Find CLE Credits Day, Burlingame, CA (January 14, 2011)
"Do I Have a Deal for You (a mock negotiation of indemnification and other risk related provisions)" at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter's conference, "Deal or No Deal: Advanced Contracts in a Box," Santa Clara, CA (November 12, 2010)
Webinar: "What Antitrust Lawyers Should Know About Network Neutrality" (November 9, 2010)
Guest Lecturer at UC Davis School of Law on deals in the clean tech industry (October 14, 2010)
Panel on, "Careers in Clean Tech and Energy Law," Santa Clara Law School (September 29, 2010)
"The Law and Ethics of Standard Setting," CLE Presentation at Juniper Networks, Inc. (July 26, 2010; September 26, 2010); CLE Presentation at Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (October 26, 2010); Presentation to Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (October 28, 2010)
"Cleantech Partnerships Across Borders: Cooperation Between Japanese Investors and American Innovators," White & Case's Cleantech Symposium, held jointly by White & Case's Silicon Valley and Tokyo offices via videoconference (May 11, 2010)
"The FCC and Net Neutrality: What Now?," Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (April 15, 2010)
"Drafting Better Indemnity Provisions," CLE Presentation at Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (February 5, 2010); at Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (July 29, 2010); CA, Inc., Islandia, NY (September 8, 2010); Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (February 9, 2011)
"Negotiating Across Foreign Cultures – Including Your Own," Association of Corporate Counsel, San Francisco, CA (January 27, 2010)
"Antitrust Law in the New Administration: Implications for Technology Companies" (moderated panel discussion) White & Case seminar, Palo Alto, CA (August 2009)
"Developments in Outsourcing- The Latest Trends" CLE Presentation at CA, Inc., Islandia, NY (December 8, 2008)
Moderated panel at East Coast Legal Industry Outsourcing Forum, hosted by the Harvard Club and sponsored by American Lawyer Media on maintaining good communications between business leaders, in-house counsel and outside counsel while negotiating an outsourcing transaction. (May 2008)
Moderated panel at New York University School of Law, sponsored by the American Constitution Society, with former Independent Counsel Robert Ray, former Maine Attorney General Jim Tierney, and Marc Greenwald, on the prosecutorial conduct of then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (April 2006)
Panel at Columbia Law School sponsored by the American Constitution Society on careers in public service and the private sector (2005)
Brown bag discussion with New York University School of Law L.L.M. program in Trade Regulation on U.S. v. Oracle (2005)
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)