Jonathan Gentin is a seasoned business attorney and the founder of Gentin and Associates. Mr. Gentin’s practice embraces a wide array of substantive areas, including intellectual property, technology licensing, strategic alliances, commercial contracts, and labor and employment. He has extensive experience in all phases of intellectual property and employment litigation. His clients include individuals, privately-held companies, and large publicly traded corporations, all of whom seek cost-effective and practical solutions to a broad range of business issues.

Mr. Gentin has been afforded significant experience with both corporations and nationally recognized law firms. Before starting Gentin and Associates, Mr. Gentin spent four years at Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a publicly traded software company headquartered in Silicon Valley with approximately $600 million in annual revenues and 2,600 employees in 20 countries.

As Hyperion’s Senior Counsel, Mr. Gentin provided legal support to the Company’s senior management team. His responsibilities included overseeing Hyperion’s intellectual property portfolio worldwide, handling the Company’s labor and employment matters in North America and Asia Pacific, negotiating and drafting commercial contracts and technology licenses, conducting corporate compliance, preparing SEC filings, and managing litigation. In 2001, Mr. Gentin received the Company’s award for leadership excellence.

Prior to joining Hyperion, Mr. Gentin was an associate attorney at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco where his practice focused exclusively on complex commercial litigation. His successes included winning a temporary restraining order in federal district court for the Taiwanese government and three Taiwanese technology companies, dismissing the SEC’s investigation of a software company and its top executives, and securing several multi-million dollar settlement awards for a licensor of semiconductor technology.

Mr. Gentin also practiced with Cushman Darby & Cushman (now Pillsbury Winthrop) in Washington, D.C. His practice there included prosecuting patent and trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and litigating intellectual property, unfair competition, and antitrust matters in federal and state courts. He also taught civil procedure to visiting practitioners from Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Before joining Cushman, Mr. Gentin served as a federal district court law clerk.

Mr. Gentin served respectively as Labor and Employment Committee Chair and Pro Bono Committee Chair of the Corporate Counsel Association's San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. He was a featured panelist at the 2003 annual meetings of both the International Bar Association and the Corporate Counsel Association.

Mr. Gentin received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1986 and his law degree in 1992 from Emory University School of Law, where he was articles editor of the law review. He is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.