The founder of JACK, Janine Anthony Bowen counsels clients in critical areas spanning intellectual property, Internet-based issues and the licensing and acquisition of technology. She helps clients leverage greater revenue from their technology, and she safeguards their intellectual property.
Her ability to achieve results stem from deep experience in drafting technology and intellectual property agreements and negotiating successful contracts across a broad array of business sectors. In those agreements, Ms. Bowen secures the most advantageous position for her clients, enabling them to preserve robust ownership rights and helping them to enjoy the highest possible return from licensing their technology.
She helps businesses resolve technology disputes and she advises them on strategies for solving a wide range of legal technology challenges. In addition to skillful negotiation, clients count on Ms. Bowen for intelligent technology analysis, cost control, strategic growth advice and thought leadership.
On an ongoing basis, she serves as technology counsel for companies seeking export compliance, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets protection, government technology contracts, technical data rights, cloud computing solutions, the sharing and transfer of data, mergers and acquisitions, information security, and corporate and workplace privacy policies.
Ms. Bowen's credential as a Certified Information and Privacy Professional designates her as a leading authority on corporate privacy issues, laws and concepts in the United States, the European Union and the Asia Pacific region. Ms. Bowen also serves as a Consumer Privacy Ombudsman in Bankruptcy matters in U.S. Trustee Region 8.
Because of her expertise, Ms. Bowen has become a highly sought-after professional speaker on technology and the law, covering such trends as social media practices and cloud computing challenges.
Before she founded JACK, Ms. Bowen capped a more than decade-long practice in law by rising to partner at the Atlanta o ce of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Before practicing law, she built a foundation for her career in technology.
She worked as a senior software consultant for Accenture, as an industrial engineer at CIBA Vision and as a program manager for IBM, where she managed hundreds of technology licensing agreements that generated global revenue exceeding $150 million a year.
Her professional and civic involvement includes serving on Clemson University's College of Engineering and Science Board of Advisors and guiding the State Bar of Georgia's Technology Law Section, where she is a past chair.
Peers elected her a member of Georgia Trend magazine's Legal Elite. Ms. Bowen is a Leadership Georgia alumna and a Leadership Atlanta alumna. She belongs to a number of law- and technology-related professional organizations, such as the International Technology Law Association and the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. She serves on the Atlanta Center for Self Su ciency board of directors.
Ms. Bowen's leisure pursuits include video production, family activities and reading.
Education
- J.D., Georgia State University College of Law, 1998
- M.S., Clemson University, 1991
- B.S., Clemson University, 1989