Mark Partridge - author, attorney and professional speaker.
A graduate of Harvard Law School,
Mark has over 25 years of experience with intellectual property issues,
including experience as counsel to R.J.R Nabisco, expert advisor for the World
Intellectual Property Organization, and witness in the "Trial of the Century."
As an attorney, Mark has been hired by many of the world's best known
corporations - including Nike, MasterCard, Nabisco, Kraft, Navistar,
PepsiCo and others - to help with intellectual property management,
protection and strategy.
He now brings the lessons learned from that experience
to help companies of all sizes - from "dream and a prayer" to "billion dollar
buy-out" - achieve greater business success with their ideas, brands,
information and innovation.
He is the author of the book Guiding Rights: Trademarks, Copyright
and the Internet (2003) and co-author of a chapter entitled
"Intellectual Property: Protect What is Yours and Avoid Taking What
Belongs to Someone Else" in the ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning
Professions (2008). His article "Copyrights and Wrongs: How to avoid
committing copyright infringements when creating training materials"
appears in the November 2008 issue of HR Magazine.
Mark is the past president for the Illinois Chapter of the National Speakers Association and a resource speaker for Vistage International, the world's largest CEO membership organization.
Mark is available for speaking engagements in 2009. For more
information or bookings, please call Hope at 847-494-6352 or email hope@yasukodesign.com.
Mark V.B. Partridge - The Guiding Rights Attorney Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP 311 South Wacker Drive Suite 5000 Chicago IL 60606 mpartridge@pattishall.com 312-554-8000 Copyright MMVII Mark Partridge