TIMOTHY H. EHRLICH
850 Winter Street
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone | 781-890-8800
Fax | 781-622-1622
tehrlich@gunder.com

TIMOTHY is a partner in our Boston office heading up the IP and Corporate Partnering Group for the firm’s East Coast offices. He has extensive experience assisting clients in the information technology, biotech and medical device industries in developing, acquiring, licensing and commercializing intellectual property, products and technology.

Timothy has represented his clients in negotiating strategic alliances and/or licensing and commercial arrangements with, among others, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Eli Lilly, General Motors, Google, GSK, IBM, Lundbeck, Microsoft, NBA, NHL, Novartis, Oracle, Orbitz, Sanofi-Aventis, Sun Microsystems, Takeda, Tyco, and Yahoo!. He has also negotiated commercial and clinical arrangements with many major research institutions including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

Timothy has spoken in a number of forums and authored articles on intellectual property matters and related business strategies that affect strategic alliances. He is also a co-author of the treatise "Corporate Partnering, Structuring and Negotiating Domestic and International Strategic Alliance" (Aspen Publishers). He has participated as a presenter and moderator at numerous conferences and has taught classes on both the East and West Coasts relating to intellectual property matters, including at Berkeley, Boston University, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford.

Prior to joining the firm Timothy worked for Latham and Watkins LLP where he had a very similar type of practice. He was also previously a corporate counsel for Cisco Systems where he was responsible for negotiating, drafting and closing numerous large, strategic sales and licensing transactions for the company and for representing it in all matters related to US and foreign wiretapping laws. Prior to joining Cisco, Timothy served as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. where he was primarily responsible for the case of US v. Microsoft.

Timothy received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. He received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was a four year member of the national championship varsity squash team. Timothy is a member of the State Bars of California and Massachusetts.