Contact Rayan "Raakesh" Coutinho

Phone: (513) 852-6030
Fax: (513) 419-6430
Email: rfcoutinho@woodlamping.com
Blog: http://www.rcoutinho.com/

• Education

• Dr. Rayan Felix Coutinho has earned his J.D. in May 2005 and his Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) in August 2005 from the University of Toledo, Ohio. He has earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Production / Manufacturing Engineering) from the University of Mumbai, India.
  

• Legal Services

Business in the Digital Age

• Drafting of customized web documents such as End User License Agreements (EULA), Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notices, Refund Policy, and Membership Agreements.
• Advice on compliance with The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000.
• Advice on compliance with the CAN SPAM Act of 2003 and the Junk Fax Prevention Act (JFPA) of 2005.
• Advice on Dot Com Disclosures i.e. complying with FTC guidelines and consumer protection laws applicable to online advertising.
• Advice on protecting personal information relating to customers and employees.
• Advice on unsettled legal issues on the internet, such as scraping, cyber-smearing, defamation, aggregation, work-made-for-hire and privacy, online contracts, RSS, Web Feeds such as Atom, Blogs, Vlogs, and linking and framing.
• Consultation regarding website design to address legal issues, e.g. advice on site layout or click through procedures.
• Assisting with domain name disputes arising under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
• Assistance with domain name issues such as cybersquatting, reverse-cybersquatting, typosquatting, gripe sites, second level domain name disputes, or domain name warehousing.

Trademark

• Performing trademark clearance and availability searches.
• Drafting trademark availability opinion letters.
• Development of trademark protection strategies, including infringement monitoring services and acceptable use guidelines.
• Trademark maintenance, including filing of Declarations of Use and Declaration of Incontestability between the 5th and 6th year of registration and Declaration of Use and Renewal of Registration between the 9th and 10th year of registration and in each successive ten-year period.
• Preparing, filing and prosecuting trademark applications in 50 states and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• Recording trademarks with the United States Customs and Border Protection to prevent importation of counterfeit goods.
• Preparing cease and desist letters and negotiating trademark coexistence agreements, if appropriate.
• Preparing, filing and prosecuting trademark oppositions and cancellations.
• Representing clients in trademark matters in state and federal courts and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (trademarks only, not patents).
• Conducting trademark infringement litigation, including actions based on the Lanham Act (federal Trademark Act), state trademark statutes, trademark dilution, trademark tarnishment, trademark blurring, unfair competition, and rights of publicity.
• Preparing and negotiating agreements related to trademarks, such as assignment agreements, consent to use agreements, and licensing agreements.
  

Copyright

• Preparing, filing and prosecuting copyright registration with the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress.
• Development of copyright protection strategies.
• Preparing and negotiating copyright licenses, merchandising license agreements and licensing agent agreements.
• Drafting and service of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take-down notices in cases of potential infringement. 
• Copyright infringement litigation.
  

Trade Secret & Confidential Information

• Preparation and negotiation of agreements with employees restricting their employment and post-employment activities e.g. assignment of inventions, non-competition, non-solicitation, non-circumvention, non-disclosure.
• Consultation regarding legal issues applicable to the creation of internal systems designed to preserve and protect trade secrets.
• Drafting of vendor and contractor agreements to protect trade secrets.
• Documents, Agreements and Policies Related to Technology
• Preparation, negotiation and drafting of licensing agreements, technology development agreements, distribution agreements, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreements, Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreements, Application Service Provider (ASP) agreements, Service Level Agreement (SLA), IT purchase and sale agreements, technology escrow agreements, and electronic contracts.
• Preparation, negotiation and drafting of advertising agreements, affinity marketing agreements, celebrity endorsement agreement, co-branded marketing agreement, content license agreement, content provider agreements, database license agreement, exclusive sponsorship agreement, featured services provider agreement, joint product development agreement, joint venture agreement, website linking agreement, right of publicity license agreement, and shrink-wrap licenses.
• E-commerce agreements (B2B agreements, B2C agreements).
• Website development and hosting agreements.
• Hardware sales and leasing agreements.
• Email, blogging, internet and electronic communications policies and privacy issues in the workplace as it applies to employees.

Business and Corporate Law:

• Advice on choice of entity, entity formation, EIN, drafting and amending bylaws, preparing shareholder and board of director meeting materials, dissolution of entities, and advice on state corporation and limited liability company laws.
• Negotiating and drafting of corporate documents such as operating agreements, close corporation agreements, stock purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, management, assignment, confidentiality (non-disclosure, non-solicitation, and non-circumvention), and buy-sell agreements.
• Negotiating and drafting of employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenants such as non-compete provisions, lease agreements and business contracts.
• Establishing ownership programs for key employees such as stock incentives and phantom stock plans.
• Advising clients on immigration matters particularly on employment based visa and green card petitions.

Municipal and Governmental Law:

• Assisting legal counsel and law directors for various communities such as the City of Springdale, the City of Mason, Village of Terrace Park, Symmes Township, Village of Green Hills, and the City of Madeira on matters faced by political subdivisions of Ohio.
• Drafting of opinion memoranda.

• Publications

• Prediction of 3-D Surface Texture in Hard Turning using Neuro-Fuzzy Techinques. Annals of the 2002 International CIRP Design Seminar, May 16-18, 2002, Hong Kong.
• “Optimization of Three-Dimensional Surface Topography in Hard Turning.”
• Methodology to Compare 3-D and 2-D Parameters for the Optimization of Hard Turned Surfaces. International Journal of Machining Science and Technology, July-September 2005, Volume 9, Number 3.
• Living Across the Seven Seas. The Indian Express North American Edition, March 3, 2006.
• Monthly articles in the Queen City Bulletin, newsletter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Chapter 21 in Cincinnati.
• Industani - The Legal Newsletter for the Global Indian

• Professional Licenses

• Supreme Court of Ohio
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
  

• Professional Organizations
  

• Cincinnati Bar Association
• Ohio State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Member of the Executive Board, SME Cincinnati Chapter 21
• American Health Lawyers Association

• Languages in which services are available

• English
• Hindi
• Marathi
• Konkani
• Gujarati