ATTORNEY MELISSA BOGE

Professional Experience
Melissa Boge is an innovative business and intellectual property attorney and has extensive experience representing clients in a broad array of business transactions, including:

• Software and intellectual property licensing;
• Ecommerce contracts and advising, including privacy matters;
• Procurement and sales contracting;
• Mergers and acquisition negotiation and support (including transition support); and
• Business formation and advising.

Before founding Slate Legal Services in 2006, Melissa worked with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC and at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP (now Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP).

Education

• J.D., Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College (1998), editor in chief Journal of Small & Emerging Business Law

• B.S., Michigan Technological University (1995), scientific and technical communications, magna cum laude

Admitted to Practice:

• State Bar of Oregon
• State Bar of California

Teaching Activities:

• Adjunct Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School, Technology and Transfer Licensing Class

Presentations:

• "Alphabet Soup: UETA and UCITA," OLI Continuing Legal Education Seminar, April 2001.

• "Intellectual Property for Beginners," Wired Women Web, June 2002.

• "Intellectual Property Documentation in Acquisitions, September 2003.

• "Doing Due Diligence," November 2003.

• "What You and Your Clients Should Know About Serving on a Board of Directors", 2006 Lewis & Clark Business Law Institute, February 2006.

•"Privacy Issues", The Life Cycle of an E-commerce Company, Oregon State Bar Continuing Legal Education Seminar, September 2006.

Publications:

• "Increasing Exporting in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Learning to Do the Right Thing," 1 J. Small & Emerging Bus L. 338, 1998.

• "The Internet: Opportunities for the Wary," Or. Bus. L. 2, 1998.

• "Website Audits: Liability Lifesavers," Software Association of Oregon Newsletter, July 2000.

• "Online Intellectual Property Checklist: Protecting Your Moneymaker," Software Association of Oregon Newsletter, August 2000.