Robin D. Gross

Robin D. Gross is a San Francisco intellectual property lawyer at Imagine Law: Law Offices of Robin D. Gross, with more than 20 years of experience handling technology, cyberspace, and digital rights matters. She represents individuals, startups, and larger companies in transactional and litigation matters involving copyrights, trademarks, domain names, privacy, cybersecurity, and online platforms. She also advises clients on DMCA compliance, intermediary liability, licensing, intellectual property enforcement, and the lawful use and distribution of protected digital content internationally.

Robin earned her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1998, where she edited the Computer & High Technology Law Journal and received a High Technology Law certificate. She earned two B.A. degrees from Michigan State University in 1995, studying International Relations and Political Philosophy. She is admitted in California and maintains active professional memberships in the California Bar Association, San Francisco Bar Association, and American Bar Association.

Robin began her legal career in family law before serving as the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s first Staff Attorney for Intellectual Property in 1999. She litigated precedent-setting matters involving online file sharing, DMCA anti-circumvention rules, digital publication, trade secrets, and consumer recording rights. She later founded an international civil liberties organization focused on balanced intellectual property rights, freedom of expression, and Internet policy, while continuing her legal practice and policy advocacy.

Robin D. Gross has advised policymakers, taught international intellectual property subjects, testified before the US Copyright Office, and participated in major Internet governance forums. She has served in leadership roles connected with ICANN and the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. She was named among the world’s top 50 intellectual property figures by Managing Intellectual Property and among California’s influential attorneys by the Daily Journal for her work on technology law.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney/Owner, Law Offices of Robin D. Gross
• Member, California Bar Association
• Member, San Francisco Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• California

Education

• Santa Clara University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Michigan State University, James Madison College
  BA in International Relations
• Michigan State University, James Madison College
  BA in Political Philosophy

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