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William F. Swiggart has published and spoken widely on legal topics involving Startups, Angel Financing, Technology Licensing Trademark Protection, Internet Law and the like. The following is a sampling of publications and presentations by Mr. Swiggart:

  • Author & Presenter, Structuring & Negotiating Technology Licensing Agreements (West Publishing & Reedlogic, October 4, 2008).
  • "Massachusetts' New Business Corporation Act - New Chapter 156D Compared with Old Chapter 156B," THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL (Spring 2004).
  • Licensing of Copyrights, Trademarks and Domain Names in E-Commerce, a chapter in INTERNET LAW FOR THE BUSINESS LAWYER (American Bar Association, 2001).
  • Moderator, "Preparing Your Company to be Acquired or for an Initial Public Offering," a Panel Presentation with Kevin Rhodes, CFO of Edgewater Technologies, and Louis P. LeGuyader, PhD, Princeton University, at the High Tech Group, Massachusetts Society of CPAs, Newton Marriott Hotel (October 7, 2003).
  • Faculty, "Selling a Business in Massachusetts - Structuring the Deal," a Lecture at the Sterling Education Seminars, Sheraton Boston Hotel (November 21, 2003).
  • Speaker, "Web Linking Agreements: Quasi-Licenses in Interactive Media and E-Commerce," at the Internet and and E-Commerce Conference, Center for International Legal Studies, Kitzbuehel, Austria (January 13, 2003).
  • Moderator, "Further Development of the Internet-Based, E-Commerce, Business Process Utility for Insurance Claims," a Panel Presentation at the Insurance Technology Symposium, Strategic Research Institute, Scottsdale, AZ (February 3, 2003).
  • Moderator, "The Bayh-Dole Act & the State of University Technology Transfer in 2003," a Panel Presentation at the 4th Annual Conference, Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network, Campus of Princeton University (May 29, 2003).
  • "Technology Transfer from University to Start-Up," a presentation before the FINANCIAL EXECUTIVES NETWORKING GROUP (May 1, 2003).
  • Moderator of Educational Institutions and Non-Profits Involved with Entrepreneurial Ventures a panel of the Third Annual Conference of the Princeton Entrepreneurs Network held in Princeton, New Jersey on Thursday, May 30, 2002.
  • "Enemy By E-Mail," Business Law Today (American Bar Association, May/June 2002).
  • "Web Linking Agreements: Quasi-Licenses in Interactive Media," THE CYBERSPACE LAWYER (March 2001).
  • Mr. Swiggart is a founder and past President, of the Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network, Inc., a c.501(c)(3) qualified organization dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship.
  • Starting a Company, a panel presentation to the InterNetwork National Conference in Princeton, NJ, with Howard Cox, General Partner of Greylock Ventures; Wade Myers, CEO of Interrelate, Inc.; and Kenneth Slade, Partner of Hale and Dorr LLP (May 25, 2000).
  • Privacy and the Internet, a panel presentation to the Princeton-Boston InterNetwork in Boston, MA, with Devin Hosea, President of Predictive Networks, Inc., of Cambridge, MA and Harvey Silverglate, Senior Partner of Silverglate & Good, Boston, MA (June 28, 2000).
  • Web-Linking Agreements and Terms of Service, a presentation to the High Technology Practice Group of the Mass. Bar Association on December 13, 2000.
  • "Plan Early and Often for Eventual Sale or Acquisition," MASS HIGH TECH (November 2-8, 1998
  • Bayh-Dole Act
  • Merger & Aquistition Structuring
  • Chapter 156D Comparison
  • Web Linking Agreements
  • Web Linking Presentation

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