Travers Morgan

Travers Morgan’s legal practice encompasses a comprehensive range of transactions relating to technology, intellectual property, privacy, and cybersecurity related issues. Bringing years of experience advising businesses in the fields of technology, entertainment, and life sciences, Travers understands the industry specific challenges that clients face on a day-to-day basis. His approach as an attorney balances the legal issues that clients face with the vital business interests that are necessary to operate a company effectively at any stage of growth.

Travers protects his clients’ interests throughout the entire development lifecycle, including providing initial legal opinions and recommendations prior to launch of products or services, compliance and product counseling, as well as contract drafting and negotiations, throughout the planning and development stages of such products and services, patent and trademark prosecution for protection of proprietary products and branding initiatives, licensing and commercialization advice and related agreements when clients are ready to launch or partner with third parties.

Travers is a member of the California State Bar, District of Columbia Bar, and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is Certified in IoT and Blockchain Fundamentals through ISACA.  He has presented on issues relating to technology, intellectual property, and privacy and continuously takes courses relating to emerging technologies to maintain an understanding of the issues that clients face on a day-to-day basis in the development of their products and services.  Travers is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, IAPP, and ISACA, and has also served as a board member of the Santa Monica Bar Association.

Services that Travers provides for his clients include transactional matters such as:

• Technology Transactions: Drafting and Negotiation of Technology Agreements and Policies such as License Agreements, Master Service Agreements, Developer Agreements, Joint Venture and Partnership Agreements, Distribution Agreements, Independent Contractor Agreements, Assignment Agreements, Cloud Computing Agreements, Employment Agreements, Open Source Software Policies and Agreements, Material and Technology Transfer Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreements, Website and Terms of Use Agreements, among other technology centric agreements and policies.
• Privacy: Data Processing Agreements, Privacy Policies, Product Counseling, Compliance Opinions and Recommendations, Data Inventories, Privacy Program Management and Implementation Recommendations, and Privacy and IT Due Diligence for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Financing Deals.
• Intellectual Property: Patent and Trademark Preparation and Prosecution, Patentability, Non-Infringement, Freedom to Operate, and Invalidity Opinions, Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and other Intellectual Property related Licenses and Agreements, Intellectual Property Security Agreements, and IP Due Diligence for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Financing Deals.