BARTON

SELDEN

Partner

bselden@ggwslaw.com

EDUCATION

LL.M., International and
Comparative Law, magna
cum laude, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium, 1985

J.D., Boalt Hall, University of
California Berkeley, 1983

B.A., Political Science, cum
laude, University of
California Irvine, 1979

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Selden advises clients on international trade and business transactions, providing guidance for European and Asian companies on their activities in the United States, and for U.S. entities in their foreign activities. His clients include producers of consumer goods, housewares, food, beverages, and construction products, and suppliers of services ranging from television broadcasting to enterprise-level computer software.

Mr. Selden provides direct legal services in the formation of U.S. subsidiaries and related companies, registration and enforcement of trademarks, intellectual property licensing, distribution and agency agreements, employment matters, and civil litigation.

For companies that cannot dedicate a member of the legal department to oversee matters in the United States, Mr. Selden functions as an outside General Counsel, providing a single point of contact for the overseas client in working with the various attorneys needed to follow matters in particular states or in specialized fields of law.

Mr. Selden holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Boalt Hall, and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, magna cum laude, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has repeatedly been named one of Northern California's "Super Lawyers," and recently spent a semester teaching classes on International Business Transactions and Intellectual Property Law at the Prague University of Economics, as the recipient of a 2008 Fulbright award.

He is an Adjunct Professor of International Business Transactions and European Law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. He lectures frequently at Italian universities, including Ca' Foscari in Venice, the University of Bologna, and the University of Pavia, on subjects of international trade, commercial law and intellectual property. Mr. Selden also teaches an annual intensive course on U.S. Trademark Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Mr. Selden is fluent in Italian.

PUBLICATIONS AND TALKS

• Assessing the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods, International Bar Association, Buenos Aires (2008)
• Going Global: Essential International Law for Business Transactions, National Business Institute, San Francisco (2008)
• Responding to Deception in International Sales of Goods, International Bar Association, Singapore (2007)
• Profili processuali del commercio elettronico, RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI DIRITTO E PROCEDURA CIVILE, p. 73 (Giuffrè, 2002)
• Le fonti del diritto statunitense dei contratti commerciali, Università di Torino (2005), Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (2003)
• I rapporti bilaterali tra l'Unione europea e gli Stati Uniti davanti al WTO, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (2005), Università di Bologna (2004)
• Open Source ed istituti di ricerca: verso un modello F/LOSS per la commercializzazione di software sviluppato con il supporto pubblico, Centro di Documentazione Europea, Venezia (2004)
• Il «discovery» nel sistema processuale civile statunitense: la funzione e lo scopo, Consiglio dell'ordine degli avvocati di Venezia (2004), Università di Pavia (2004)
• Resolving Disputes Between Trademark Owners and Domain Name Registrants: Comparing the U.S. and Italian Systems, American Society of International Law Regional Meeting (San Francisco, 2002)
• La risoluzione delle dispute tra i titolari di marchi ed i registranti di nomi a dominio, Università di Bologna, Università di Modena, Università di Pavia (2002)
• An Introduction to the Regulation of Electronic Commerce in the United States and the European Union, Golden Gate University (2001)