Daniel Ravicher is the President and Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation and the Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Prior to co-founding SFLC with Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia Law School, Mr. Ravicher was associated with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.. Mr. Ravicher received his law degree from
the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Franklin O. Blechman Scholar for his class, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of South Florida. Mr. Ravicher has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and is an Adjunct Professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the State of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.