Fenwick & West Providing Pro Bono Legal Support!!

I have been dying to talk about an evolving partnership that we have been working on that has just hit its first milestone. Fenwick & West LLP has signed on to provide us with pro bono legal support!!!!

This is a big deal for us. We have a number of major challenges that will require significant legal support. These include:

• Protection of the students. Most are underage. We need to do a great job protecting them from the risks that the Internet introduces. We need to make sure that their parents are comfortable with what they are doing. We will likely need their parents to approve of them doing projects.
• Intellectual Property (IP) ownership and protection. As students do projects, they may come with or create IP. We need to be very careful with how we protect this. We want to insure that they have the ability do with this IP as they choose.
• Legality. We of course need to make sure that everything that the students as well as FreshBrain do is legal:) This is very broad and includes things like use of source code, copyright and business models.

Fenwick & West hass signed up to provide us with support for our Preview Release!! If you don't know them - they are an impressive legal firm. They are very strong in IP and M&A, very well known in the Silicon valley and beyond! Here is an excerpt from their website.

Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. We have over 250 attorneys, with offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California.

We could not be happier to be embarking on a partnership that I hope is beneficial to both FreshBrain and Fenwick & West, and one that enables us to do what we have set out to do and give the students an excellent learning experience!