Greenberg Traurig

IP - Litigation

Co-Chair, Global IP & Technology Practice Group

Ian Ballon is an intellectual property and Internet litigator who is the Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. He represents clients in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, security, software, database and Internet- and mobile-related disputes and in the defense of data privacy, security breach, behavioral advertising, TCPA, and other Internet-related class-action suits. Please click here to view a list of some of his recent cases.

Mr. Ballon, who splits his time between the firm's Silicon Valley and LA offices, is the author of the five-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2d Edition (Thomson Reuters West 2008 & 2018 Cum. Supp., www.ianballon.net) and the earlier first edition, which has been cited in state and federal court opinions. He is also the author of The Complete CAN-SPAM Act Handbook (West 2008) and The Complete State Security Breach Notification Compliance Handbook (West 2009). In addition, Mr. Ballon serves as Executive Director of Stanford University Law School's Center for E-Commerce and serves as a member to the consultative group to the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law, Data Privacy project. He previously served as an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes (ALI Principles of Law 2007).

Capabilities
Intellectual Property Litigation
Media & Entertainment Litigation
Class Action Litigation
Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Appellate
Video Games & Esports
Trade Secrets

Admission to Practice
California
District of Columbia
Maryland
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Federal Circuits
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern Districts of California
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

English

• LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center
• J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 1986
  • Articles Editor (1985-1986) and Member (1984-1985), The George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics
• B.A., Economics and Political Science, magna cum laude, Tufts University, 1983