Renato serves as co-chair of Barclay Damon's Data Security & Technology Practice Area. Primarily focused on commercial transactions involving licensing and technology-based products and services, Renato assists companies and entrepreneurs with contracts, licensing, complex business transactions, dispute resolution, intellectual property strategies, and patent and copyright applications. He has counseled clients in a wide array of industries, including health care, education, software, cloud computing, telecommunications, and electrical power utility.
For online and offline transactions, Renato counsels clients and drafts and negotiates numerous types of contracts, including website and online terms of use, privacy policies, privacy notices related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), cookie policies, cookie consent banners, accessibility policies, platform services agreements (PSAs), cloud services agreements, software as a service (SaaS) agreements, end user license agreements (EULAs), service level agreements (SLAs), mobile app license agreements, master services agreements (MSAs), master license agreements (MLAs), sponsored research agreements (SRAs), and material transfer agreements as well as agreements involving confidentiality; patent, trademark, and copyright licensing; collaboration; joint development, technology transfers; asset purchases; sponsored research; software; mobile apps; product champions; product development; manufacturing; distribution; brand development; and copyright releases. In drafting and negotiating many of these contracts, Renato addresses cyber-risk liabilities, data protection obligations, and compliance with data privacy laws, including the CCPA, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the US Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Renato has conducted dispute resolution and contract negotiations in the United States and abroad, including negotiations in Australia, Europe, and Taiwan, drafting responses and settlement, termination, and amendment agreements involving infringement, breach of contract, Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaints, and credit card payment disputes. In connection with infringement disputes, Renato has performed analysis related to intellectual property infringement, design-around, and invalidity strategies.
Additionally, Renato has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications for inventions in the software, electrical, and mechanical industries that include medical devices, surgical systems, telecommunication devices, antennas, software, mobile apps, electronic gaming devices and systems, vehicles, power equipment and machinery, computers, consumer appliances, database structures, e-commerce systems, and business methods.
In addition to his own practice, Renato serves as DEI advisor to the Summer Associate Program.