Aaron Rubin is Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster and a member of the firm's Technology Transactions Group. His practice focuses on transactions and counseling involving intellectual property and technology, including structuring and negotiating license agreements, supply agreements, technology transfers, joint development agreements, and other intellectual property and commercial matters relevant to software, hardware, electronic commerce, and other advanced information technology businesses. Mr. Rubin's practice also includes domestic and international trademark counseling, prosecution, and enforcement.
In addition, Mr. Rubin counsels clients with respect to legal issues arising from e-commerce and other online business models, such as those that depend on media sharing, user- generated content, social networking, data aggregation and collection, and paid search.
Mr. Rubin received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. In 2001, he received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the California Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Mr. Rubin served as law clerk to the Honorable William H. Orrick and the Honorable Martin J. Jenkins, both United States District Judges for the Northern District of California.