Ben Siders

Intellectual Property Practice Group Leader

Lewis Rice LLC

Benjamin J. Siders is an intellectual property and technology licensing and compliance attorney with Lewis Rice LLC in St. Louis, MO, where is the Practice Group Leader for Intellectual Property.  He is a licensed patent prosecutor, and the chairman of the Copyright Law Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).  As a former software engineer, Ben is "trilingual" (fluent in tech jargon, legalese, and English), and puts his software background to work representing small businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups in the software and computer technology sectors, as well as guiding larger enterprises through complex software audits.  He also enjoys niche practices in video games, board game, and music law.  Ben is a co-author of the American Bar Association's Legal Guide to Video Game Development, was published in the American Bar Association's Landslide journal on IP law regarding board games, holds a patent on a geogaming technology for creating parallel reality games, recently filed an amicus brief in Warner Chappell v. Nealy on behalf of AIPLA, and occasionally co-hosts a podcast about geek culture called A Lawyer’s Guide to the Galaxy.