Legal Issues and Incentives

Tom Wooters ( [email protected] ) joined LoJack in December 2003 as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. He has over 35 years of legal experience representing public and private companies and investors in a wide range of businesses, including more than 25 years as outside counsel to LoJack. Most recently, Mr. Wooters has been with the Boston firm of Sullivan & Worcester LLP. Mr. Wooters is also a director of Storage Computer Corporation (AMEX:SOS), a manufacturer of high performance fault tolerant storage subsystems, and of other private technology companies.

William S. Elias II ( [email protected] ) is the General Counsel and Technology Licensing Principal at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Draper Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit research and development laboratory dedicated to advancing science and engineering in the national interest. In addition to his duties as General Counsel, Mr. Elias is responsible for maintaining, marketing and licensing the Laboratory�s portfolio of more than 230 active domestic patents and corresponding foreign patents.

Andrew Updegrove ( [email protected] ) is a founding partner of Gesmer Updegrove, LLP. Mr. Updegrove has a broad range of experience in representing both mature and emerging high technology companies of all types in all aspects of their legal affairs. The greatest part of his time over more than 25 years in practice has been spent counseling emerging high technology and other fast growth clients. He has advised many hundreds of startup companies with respect to their strategic and legal needs, assisting them in their progress from a concept to a mature company. In the course of this representation, he has critiqued their business plans, advised on structuring their businesses, introduced them to financing sources, represented them in angel, venture capital, bank and public financings, advised them on behalf of their intellectual property programs, negotiated mergers and acquisitions on their behalf, and assisted them in many other aspects of their legal and business affairs. He also represents mature companies, banks and venture capital funds, and has represented more than 65 international standard setting consortia, most from inception.

Kirk Teska ( [email protected] ) specializes in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, litigation of intellectual property matters, employee and consultant contracts, confidential disclosure agreements, government contracts, and other related areas of intellectual property. His clients include many startup companies, engineering firms such as Foster-Miller, Inc., and large corporations such as General Electric, PerkinElmer, Raytheon, and Analog Devices. Mr. Teska drafts patents in nearly all art areas including optics, circuits, mechanical systems, processor based systems, composites, computer software, Internet, and business methods. Mr. Teska is a Director of SBANE and the Chairman of SBANE�s high tech committee, and a past Co-Chairman of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs� Network. His monthly column �Patent Watch� appears in Mass High Tech.