Paul Godfread is an attorney with a practice focusing on trademark, copyright, entertainment, technology and business law. He worked for several years as an information technology project manager for Caribou Coffee Company. During law school he worked as a research assistant to Professor Kenneth Port helping to complete a longitudinal study of U.S. trademark litigation damages. Paul Godfread has worked with intellectual property attorneys at Ecolab, Inc. and at the Ploen Law Firm. He has served as a board member of the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council in Saint Paul, Minnesota since 2004. He is currently serving as the legal correspondent for TECHdotMN, a resource for Minnesota based technology startups.

Education:

B.A., 2001, Saint Olaf College
J.D., 2008, William Mitchell College of Law

Bar Admissions:

Minnesota State Bar
Minnesota Federal Bar

Memberships:

Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
Minnesota State Bar Association – Computer and Technology Law Section
American Bar Association – Cyberspace Law Committee
Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce

Community Service

Dayton’s Bluff District Council – Board Member, Vice President
LegalCORPS – Pro Bono Assistance
Online Media Legal Network – Pro Bono Assistance

Presentations:

“Fixating on Copyrights” Ignite Minneapolis. April 22, 2009.
“Click Agree to Continue: Internet Exceptionalism in Contract Law” with Jeff Anderson, MSBA Computer and Technology Law Section Meeting, March 10, 2009.

Publications:

Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Domain Names, (co-authored with Kristine Dorraine) 65 Bus. Law. 251 (2009)