Charles Kramer

Charles Kramer

Transactional Intellectual Property and Corporate Attorney with particular experience in licensing and trademark matters

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Founding partner at JSBarkats, PLLC
  • Charles B. Kramer, Attorney at Law Office of Charles B. Kramer
Past
  • General Counsel at OSS Nokalva, Inc.
  • Speaker (Game Developers Conf. and Digital Video Conf. and columnist for InterActivity Magazine) at Miller Freeman
  • Associate attorney at Lord, Day & Lord
Education
  • Gotham Writers' Workshop
  • New York University School of Law
  • The John Marshall Law School
  • State University of New York at Binghamton
Connections
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Industry
Legal Services
Websites

Charles Kramer’s Summary

My over 15 years of experience as a corporate and
intellectual property attorney includes:

- working as General Counsel of a software company
in New Jersey where I:

-- I negotiated and drafted all of their contracts,
including toolkit, enterprise, and other complex
licenses to customers around the world, and long
-term, milestone-based services agreements. The work
required frequent interaction with the company's sales
department and management; and

-- was responsible for basic corporate and employment
matters.

- Managing a private law practice where I:

-- negotiated and drafted many agreements involving
computer games (including publishing agreements,
engine licenses, shareware licenses, and agreements
providing for the exploitation of fictional characters)
during a time when the technology and related legal
issues were new;

-- filed and prosecuted many trademark applications;
and

-- led a successful royalty audit against a major game
publisher.

My background also includes:

- obtaining an LL.M. (post-JD graduate law degree)
that required study of intellectual property and
antitrust law;

- publishing Articles on copyright, trademark, and licensing
issues, including in Miller Freeman's InterActivity
Magazine;

- speaking at conferences on legal issues, including at the
Game Developers' Conference, the U. of Texas School of
Law's Computer Law Conference, and Miller Freeman's Digital
Video Conference;

- Contributing to CSC Consulting's Leading Edge
Forum paper "Open Source: Open for Business."
www.csc.com/features/2004/uploads/LEF_OPENSOURCE.pdf;
and

- Forming and representing trade associations including
STAR ("Shareware Trade Association and Resources"),
IGDN ("International Game Developers' Network") and
The ASN.1 Consortium.

Charles Kramer’s Specialties:

Licensing, with particular experience in connection with software generally and computer games and ASN.1 in particular.


Charles Kramer’s Experience

  • Founding partner

    JSBarkats, PLLC

    (Privately Held; Law Practice industry)

    November 2009Present (2 months)

    J S Barkats, pllc is an innovative law firm premised on offering services on a "flat fee" basis to eliminate the uncertainty and expense of traditional practices based on billable hours.

  • Charles B. Kramer, Attorney

    Law Office of Charles B. Kramer

    (Law Practice industry)

    August 2005Present (4 years 5 months)

    Corporate, trademark and copyright attorney, with particular experience with software licensing, and in the computer game industry.

  • General Counsel

    OSS Nokalva, Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 1999July 2005 (6 years 7 months)

    In-house counsel providing legal services at software products and services company specializing in telecommunications and biometrics.

  • Speaker (Game Developers Conf. and Digital Video Conf. and columnist for InterActivity Magazine)

    Miller Freeman

    (Legal Services industry)

    19952000 (5 years )

  • Associate attorney

    Lord, Day & Lord

    (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Legal Services industry)

    December 1983October 1986 (2 years 11 months)

    Associate attorney in antitrust and corporate departments


Charles Kramer’s Education

  • Gotham Writers' Workshop

    19962005

  • New York University School of Law

    LL.M. , Intellectual property law; antitrust law , 19831984

  • The John Marshall Law School

    JD , Law , 19781981

    Activities and Societies:
    Law Review -- Published Comment: "New Media Techniques" (14 J.Mar.L.Rev. 733)
  • State University of New York at Binghamton

    B.A. , English , 19701975


Additional Information

Charles Kramer’s Websites:

Charles Kramer’s Interests:

* Member of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Roebling Chapter * Avid bicyclist -- Did the New York Transportation Alternatives "Century" (100+ mile rides) in 2002 and 2003 -- My bicycles include a wildly improbable souped-up 1976 Viscount. Here are pix taken by Bikecult's Dave Perry: http://bikecult.com/works/archive/04bicycles/viscountRCK.html

Charles Kramer’s Groups:

* Volunteer lawyer and member of the board for TheatreTweed (New York) 1987-1991 (off-off Broadway theater company)

* Volunteer lawyer for Professor Michael Hart's "Project Gutenberg" (public domain etext advocate) 1992-1994, Kroll & Tract

  •    NYU LLM 2005
  •    International Game Developers Association
  •    jurists of the world
  •    Binghamton University Alumni (and Faculty)
  •    LinkedICANN
  •    Clean Energy Community
  •    Game Developers
  •    Licensing Executives Society International
  •    ProVideo Coalition
  •    Licensing, Merchandising & Brand Management
  •    IP Lawyers
  •    New York PHP Community
  •    NYU Law Alumni
  •    NYC Game Industry

Charles Kramer’s Honors:

Published Law Review Comment, New Media Techniques, 14 J.M.Law Rev. 733 (1981).


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