Founding Director, IP Law Program, Golden Gate University School of Law
COURSES TAUGHT
Business Associations
Civil Procedure I & II
Content Licensing
Entertainment Law
Intellectual Property Law Survey
Internet and Software Law
Legal Methods
Professional Responsibility
Riding the IP Wave: Legal and Technical Skills Needed for New Technology Issues
Solo and Small Firm Law Practice
RESEARCH INTERESTS & AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Business Law
Civil Litigation
Intellectual Property Law, including Copyright, Trademark, Entertainment, High Technology
and Internet law
Law and Society
Legal Ethics
Solo and Small Firm Practice
EDUCATION
JD, University of California Hastings College of the Law
AB, University of California, Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Professor, William Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada - Las Vegas,
spring 2013 (teaching Proeprty Law).
Successful Plaintiff's Counsel in groundbreaking ERISA case, Meagher v. IAM, 856 F. 2d 1418 (9th Cir. 1988)
Managing Partner, Nelson & Greenberg; Founding Partner, Law Offices of Marc H. Greenberg,
and associate attorney in Bay Area litigation and IP law firms from 1979 to present,
20 years full-time practice before joining the GGU faculty in 2000
Chair, Art Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, 2009-10; Member,
Executive Board, Art Law Section, 2009-2012
Visiting Professor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2009-2010
(teaching Civil Procedure)
Lecturer, Presenter and Panelist for IP-related programs and conferences for the American
Bar Association's Copyright, and Sports and Entertainment Law Sections; The San Francisco
IP Law Association; The GGU International Law Fulbright Conference; The Comic Arts
Conference; The Philadelphia Bar Institute; and Comic Book Law School at the San Diego
International ComicCon
Right of Publicity and the Intersection of Copyright and Trademark Law. Presented to The 6th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, March 29, 2012.
For the Pennsylvania Bar Institute By Professor Marc H. Greenberg, Golden Gate University
School of Law and Michael L. Lovitz, Lovitz IP Law PC.
Book Review: Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (Duke University Press 2009), by Lucas Hilderbrand, In 1:2 The IP Law Book Review, published by the IP Law Center, Golden Gate University School of Law 77 (2011).
Co-Chair - Copyright Section, San Francisco IP Law Association
Member and Mediator for California Lawyers for the Arts
Member, State Bar of California, U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of
California, Eastern District of California, Central District of California, Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals
HONORS & AWARDS
April, 2019: Awarded the Tenth Annual Arthur Seidel Distinguished IP Service Award
by the Pennsylvania Bar Association
2001 Instructor of the Year, Golden Gate University School of Law
AV Preeminent Rated Attorney, Martindale-Hubbell 2010