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Johnston, Ronald L. was born on February 6, 1948 in Topeka, Kansas, United States.
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Ronald L. Johnston
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California State College at Fullerton (Bachelor of Arts, 1970). University of Southern California (Juris Doctor, 1973).
Career
Abdul-Jabbar v. General Motors Corporation, 75 F.3d 1391 (9th Circuit 1996); Balzer-Wolf Association, Incorporated. v. Parlex Corporation, 753 F.2d 771 (9th Circuit 1985).Worked at Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt (Los Angeles, California) specializing in Commercial Litigation, Proprietary Rights, Antitrust, Computer Law. Admitted to the bar, 1973, California. Order of the Coif; Beta Gamma Sigma.
Editor, Southern California Law Review, 1972-1973.
Director, Computer Law Association, 1988. Founder and Chairman, University of Southern California Computer Law Institute, 1979.
Company-Chairman, Trial Advocacy Institute-Intellectual Property Litigation, Aspen Publishing Law & Business, Incorporated. Company-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Computer Lawyer, Aspen Publishing Law & Business, 1983.
Board of Editors, The Journal of Proprietary Rights.
Board of Editors, The Cyberspace Lawyer. Company-Author: "Trade Secret Protection Foreign Software Generally and In The Mass Market," 3 Computer Law Journal 211, 1982. Author: "Attempted Monopolization Claims in Litigation with Competitors," in Computer Litigation 757, Practicing Law Institute, 1983.
"Antitrust Issues: Tying Arrangements, Robinson-Patman Acting Considerations and Resale Price Maintenance," in Marketing and Protecting Rights in Computer Software, American Bar Association, 1983.
"Avoiding or Resolving the Controversy," in Computer and Data Processing Contracts 197, Law Journal Seminars-Press, 1982. "A Decision-Making Process for the California Coastal Zone," 46 Southern California Law Review 513, 1973.
"A Guide for the Proponent and Opponent of Computer-Based Evidence," 1 Computer Law Journal 667, 1979. "Product Bundling Faces Increased Spector of Illegality Under the Antitrust Laws," The Computer Lawyer 1 (August 1984).
"The International Business Machines Corporation-Fujitsu Arbitration RevisitedA Case Study in Effective Alternative Dispute Resolution," 7 The Computer Lawyer 13 (1990).
"A Primer: The Formulation of an Effective Strategy in Software Copyright Litigation," in Mid-Winter Institute, 1992, AIPLA, 1992. "Copyright Protection for Command Driven Interfaces," 8 The Computer Lawyer 1 (June, 1991). "Toward an Effective Strategy in Software Copyright Litigation," 19 Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, 1993.
"Trade Secret Protection for Mass Distributed Software", The Computer Lawyer 1 November, 1994.
Member: State Bar of California. American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section).
Computer Law Association.
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Member: State Bar of California. American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section). Computer Law Association.
