David Rudin - President/Manager
David Rudin leads Microsoft's Corporate Standards Legal Team, where he specializes in legal, policy, and business issues arising from standards. David works closely with product teams on topics covering the entire standards lifecycle, including the formation of standard setting organizations, governance, technology submissions, patent licensing obligations, disclosures, implementation issues, open source, and general counseling. Before joining Microsoft, David practiced law in Dow Lohnes’s Media and Information Technology group and was a software consultant in Lotus Development Corporation’s Architected Solutions Group.
David Rudin leads Microsoft's Corporate Standards Legal Team, where he specializes in legal, policy, and business issues arising from standards. David works closely with product teams on topics covering the entire standards lifecycle, including the formation of standard setting organizations, governance, technology submissions, patent licensing obligations, disclosures, implementation issues, open source, and general counseling. Before joining Microsoft, David practiced law in Dow Lohnes’s Media and Information Technology group and was a software consultant in Lotus Development Corporation’s Architected Solutions Group.