Siders, Benjamin J.

Ben serves as Practice Group Leader for the Intellectual Property practice group at Lewis Rice in St. Louis, Missouri.  Ben enjoys a diverse intellectual property practice that includes patent and trademark prosecution, technology licensing and compliance, and copyright licensing and enforcement.  Ben is an avid gamer and former C software engineer, and he now enjoys a niche practice working with video game and board game companies, and he holds a patent on "parallel reality" games (No. 9,078,103).  Within AIPLA, he is the current Chair of the Copyright Law Committee and the copyright liaison to the AI Task Force, and he was the lead author on AIPLA’s amicus brief in Warner Chappell v. Nealy.  He also co-hosts a podcast called A Lawyer’s Guide to the Galaxy, which explores the intersection of geek culture and the law (but is mostly an excuse to talk about Star Wars).