George M. Taulbee

George M. Taulbee

Charlotte, NC recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2016
Alston & Bird LLP

266 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Patent Law Technology Law

Biography

George Taulbee heads the firm’s Technology, Privacy & IP Transactions Group in North Carolina. He focuses on all intellectual property and transactional matters involving computer and Internet technology, electronic commerce, and sports and entertainment. Mr. Taulbee has more than 25 years of experience working in software licenses and development outsourcing, joint venture, website hosting, and content and linking agreements. He has extensive experience in patent, trade secret and know-how licensing, as well as in connection with licensing trademark, rights of publicity and other rights relating to professional athletes and celebrities.

Mr. Taulbee represents clients in protecting innovations and developments relating to computer hardware, networks and software, Internet technology and electronic commerce. He prepares and prosecutes patent and trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, obtains copyright registrations and counsels clients with respect to obtaining protection for innovations, exploiting and commercializing the innovations and enforcing the proprietary rights.

Mr. Taulbee has litigated patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret disputes as well as disputes relating to the sports and entertainment industry. He has been involved in domain name disputes and disputes relating to websites and other technology.

Alston & Bird LLP

266 Best Lawyers awards

Alston & Bird LLP logo

Overview

  • University of Pittsburgh, J.D., graduated 1988

  • North Carolina, United States

  • American Bar Association - Member
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association - Member
  • International Technology Law Association - Member
  • North Carolina, United States
  • American Bar Association - Member
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association - Member
  • International Technology Law Association - Member
  • University of Pittsburgh, J.D., graduated 1988

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Patent Law
  • Technology Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Information Technology Law
  • IT Outsourcing Law

Case History

Cases
  • Experience
  • IP counsel to a large international industrial manufacturer for M&A transactions.
  • IP counsel to an international automobile manufacturer for the restructuring of all internal IP transactional relationships.
  • Counsel to a large health care information technology service provider in connection with negotiations relating to an enterprise- wide software platform.
  • IP counsel to various computer software-based and hardware-based technology companies.
  • Counsel to various athletes and celebrities.

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