About the Author

• Author: David W. Tollen
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About the Author

Attorney David W. Tollen represents buyers and sellers in cloud

computing and software licensing agreements and in other technol-

ogy transactions. He also provides advice and assistance related to

e-commerce, social media, industrial design, and intellectual prop-

erty. Finally, he provides in-house and public training on drafting

and negotiating technology contracts, for lawyers and for contract

managers, salespeople, financial executives, and other businesspeo-

ple. He’s the founder of Sycamore Legal, P.C., a technology and intel-

lectual property law firm based in San Francisco (http://Sycamore

Legal.com).

Mr. Tollen graduated with honors from Harvard Law School

and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C.

Berkeley. He has served as general counsel of a publicly traded

software company, as vice president of business development for a

technology start-up, and as a lawyer in the Silicon Valley offices of

Morrison & Foerster LLP.

Finally, Mr. Tollen writes fiction that teaches history and science.

He’s the author of the multiple-award-winner The Jericho River, A

Novel About the History of Western Civilization (Winifred Press 2012,

2014) and also of Secrets of Hominea, to be published in 2016. (For

more on these works of fiction, please visit http://David Tollen.com.)