Intellectual Property: Answers to Your Questions About Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets and Patents

Franchising Law: Practice and Forms

Martin Fern, practicing in Los Angeles, California, is an internationally recognized authority in franchising, intellectual property licensing, and contract law. He has testified in Federal and state courts as an expert in numerous cases on franchise and distribution law issues. His law practice emphasizes franchising, licensing, entertainment, and technology.

Publications:

• Author: Intellectual Property, Published 2007, STP Specialty Technical Publishers, Inc. (1 volume); A single-volume, readily accessible and useful guide to a complex subject for those who are not specialists in this area
• Author: Warren's Forms of Agreements, 8 volumes, published by Lexis-Nexis, 1985-2003; the leading treatise on negotiating, structuring and drafting American business agreements; published on CD-Rom as Authority, and on-line.
• Co-author: Franchising Law, 2nd Edition, STP Specialty Technical Publishers, Inc. (3 volumes, the leading treatise on franchising law); CCH (CD-Rom version and on-line), 1996-2003 (originally published by Matthew Bender & Co.)
• Author, Establishing and Operating Under a Franchise Relationship, Business Monograph Series, Matthew Bender & Co., 1986-2003.
• Revision Editor, Current Legal Forms, Volume 3a-Business Franchises, Lexis-Matthew Bender & Co., published on CD-Rom as Authority and on-line, 2000-2003.
• Author of numerous other law books, published articles, and speeches on franchising, distribution, and intellectual property law.

Professional Affiliations:

• ABA Advisor, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, Drafting Committee of Uniform Franchise and Business Opportunity Act, 1985-1986.
• Chairman, ABA Subcommittee on Franchising, 1979-1986; California Franchise Legislation Committee, 1982-1988, 2001-present; Legal and Legislative Affairs Committee, International Franchise Association, 1981-2001.
• Member: New York and California Bars.

Academic:

• City University of New York (B.A.). New York University School of Law (J.D, Cum Laude).