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Josh Waterston is a senior attorney with Wilftek. He practices intellectual property and technology law, focusing on the intersection of technology, privacy, and security, particularly in the healthcare sector. He enables clients to leverage cloud computing opportunities while mitigating their legal and financial exposure. In short, he helps clients take advantage of opportunities created by new technology without falling into hidden traps. Wilftek works with clients of all sizes (one-person startups to Fortune 500 to Global 10,000).

Recognized in Main Line Today Top Lawyers (2018, 2020 – 2024) and Delaware County Daily Times Best
Lawyers (2018 – 2021)
He is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information
Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP).
He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility
committee, chairs the PBA Intellectual Property section’s Trademark committee, and is a member of the
American Bar Association and PBA committees on intellectual property and privacy.
Josh is also a member of the Delaware County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Intellectual Property
Forum, InfraGard (an FBI/private sector alliance), and is a current member and former board member of the
Cloud Security Alliance – Delaware Valley Chapter.
He has taught continuing legal education seminars on intellectual property law, privacy and cybersecurity,
technology and ethics, and family law. Recently, Josh has spoken on issues of generative artificial
intelligence and intellectual property rights. He has followed the waves of technology for decades, building
and repairing computers, designing and coding websites, and dabbling in programming.
Josh is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania state courts, as well as the United States District Courts in the
Eastern, Middle, and Western districts of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining Wilftek, Josh was associated with two other firms, practicing intellectual property and
technology law. He has represented clients in Federal copyright, trademark, and patent infringement
litigation.
Mr. Waterston has spent much of his career as a litigator. He has handled civil and criminal litigation from
trial through appellate stages, having litigated well over 30,000 cases in two decades.
He served for over seven years as Chief Counsel of the Delaware County Office of Support Enforcement,
managing the law office of Pennsylvania’s third-largest child support agency and leading a new program
which collected over $3 Million in child support arrears.
He received his J.D. from Widener University School of Law, and his undergraduate degree from
Binghamton University.

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