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FOCUS AREAS

Digital Media and

Entertainment

Mobility

Technology Transactions

HIGHLIGHTS

EXPERIENCE

John McGaraghan is a partner in the technology transactions practice at Wilson Sonsini

Goodrich & Rosati's Palo Alto office. John's practice focuses on intellectual property

counseling and licensing, and the drafting and negotiation of strategic commercial contracts.

John has deep experience in assisting companies with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures,

and financing matters, and other complex business transactions involving technology and

intellectual property that build and protect enterprise value.

John is a subject-matter specialist in the area of open source software licensing, advising a

variety of companies, including open source software vendors, on issues associated with

open source software that arise in day-to-day operations (both with respect to ingestion and

use as well as contribution to and distribution of open source software), as well as in the

context of acquisitions and other corporate level transactions. He is certified as a Black Duck

Legal Professional.

John represents public and private companies through all stages of growth in the software,

SaaS, media and content, big data, AI and automation, advertising, hardware, and

semiconductor industries.

Before attending law school, John worked as a software developer and as a singer,

songwriter, instrumentalist, producer, and performer.

CREDENTIALS

Trusted Technology Transactions Practitioner

John focuses on IP, licensing, and commercial transactions, with particular expertise in

software, SaaS, digital media, big data, and open licensing.

Represents Digital Media Clients

He regularly represents companies in connection with the operation of digital media services,

and in transactions related to the development and distribution of a wide variety of media

content.

Advises on Open Source Licensing

John’s practice includes comprehensive coverage related to the use and distribution of open

source software, including advising on the implementation of ingestion and contribution policies,

audit and remediation in connection with corporate transactions, and the establishment and

ongoing management of open source software projects.

John P.

McGaraghanPARTNER

Technology

Transactions

Palo Alto

jmcgaraghan@wsgr.com

650-849-3149

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Education

J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Magna Cum Laude; Thurston Society; Order of the Coif; Executive Articles Editor, Hastings

Communication and Entertainment Law Journal

B.A., Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

Associations and Memberships

Member, Intellectual Property Section, American Bar Association

Member, American Society of Composers and Producers

Honors

Named to the 2018 edition of the "Rising Stars" list published by Northern California

Super Lawyers

Admissions

State Bar of California

MATTERS

Select Transactions

Audience in its purchase of Sensor Platforms

Audience in its sale to Knowles

Brocade in its sale to Broadcom and associated divestitures to Arris, Extreme Networks,

and Hitachi Data Systems

Cortina in its spin-out of Cortina Access and sale to Inphi

Cortina Access in its sale to Realtek

CSR in its sale to Qualcomm

Dreamworks in its sale of its Ptch business to Yahoo!

Flipboard in its purchase of Zite from CNN

Gigamon in its acquisition by Elliot Management

Good Technology in its sale to BlackBerry

Invisage Technologies in its acquisition by Apple

KLA-Tencor in various acquisitions, including Orbotech

LiveRamp in its sale of Axciom to Interpublic Group

Rambus in its purchase of Snowbush IP's SerDes technology assets from Semtech

Rambus in its purchase of memory interconnect business line from Inphi

Seagate in its purchase of Samsung's hard drive business

Socialcam in its sale to Autodesk

Square in its acquisition of Weebly

CLIENTS

Select Clients

INSIGHTS

Select Publications

"District Court Issues Injunction in hiQ v. LinkedIn Scraping Case," WSGR Alert,

September 1, 2017

Co-author with M. Sachet, T.J. Graham, S. McKinney, B. Chari, A. Pate, and A. Shevell,

"Court Ruling Supports Contractual and Statutory Enforcement of Open Source Software

Agora, Inc.

Carbon3D

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Creative Commons

DoorDash

Epic! Creations

Gates Ventures

Google/Google Ventures

Kodiak Robotics

Lyft

Moovit

MongoDB

NetApp

Pensando

Rambus

Seagate

Ultrahaptics

The William and Flora Hewlett

Foundation

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Licenses," WSGR Alert, May 19, 2017

"Open Source Software—Maximizing Benefit and Mitigating Risk," Healthcare

Innovations Venture Investment Forum, Legal Issues in Life Sciences for Investors, April

2017

Co-author with S. Bell, E. Durrette, D. Bish, and R. Strickland, "Federal District Court

Refuses to Compel Arbitration, Holding That Zappos.com's 'Browsewrap' Agreement Was

Not a Valid Contract," WSGR Client Alert, November 7, 2012

Co-author with M. Wolk and L. Hantover, "Dismissal of Amazon Privacy Suit - CFAA

Implications," Law360, July 19, 2012

"Ohio District Court Allows Database 'Scraping' Case to Proceed on a Variety of Legal

Theories," Cyberspace Lawyer, 2010

"A Modern Analytical Framework for Monopolization in Innovative Markets for Products

with Network Effects," 30 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal 179,

2007

Select Speaking Engagements

Adjunct Professor, University of California Hastings College of the Law

Speaker, "What Funders Need to Know About Intellectual Property Provisions in PRIs,

Contracts, and Grants," Georgetown Law's 34th Annual Representing and Managing Tax-

Exempt Organizations Conference, Washington D.C., April 28, 2017

Speaker, "IP in M&A Transaction," IP Symposium, Stanford Law School LLM Program,

Palo Alto, January 29, 2015

Co-presenter with Michael Wolk, "Getting Your Software License Right," Mozilla WebFWD

Webinar, July 18, 2012

Co-presenter with Suzanne Bell, "Database Scraping: Liability in the Access and Use of

Third-Party Content," West Publishing Live Webinar, January 13, 2011