Jay Monahan has been blazing trails in the Wild West that is Internet IP law. After eight eventful years as the top intellectual property lawyer at eBay, his new horizon is a video-sharing startup called Vuze Inc.
Monahan helped eBay create what, at the dawn of the millennium, was considered a cutting-edge program to root out copyright- and trademark-infringing products sold on the online auction site. He also helped lead the charge in the landmark eBay vs. MercExchange U.S. Supreme Court case, which established that injunctions shouldn’t be issued because of patent infringement alone.
