Kerry Brown Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Provide legal advice and strategic guidance to the executive team. Lead the legal and compliance teams and manage legal strategy, compliance, risk mitigation, and outside counsel.Highlighted achievements:- Completed onboarding :)

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Provide fractional general counsel service to software as a service (SaaS), renewable energy, consumer electronics, and industrial companies. Manage all legal matters for clients and provide comprehensive legal guidance including startup funding, contract negotiations, intellectual property, compliance, and litigation. Advise executive teams on strategic decisions related to corporate governance, technology acquisitions, and partnerships. Collaborate with R&D and product development teams to align innovation with patent strategy. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify and address legal challenges in product development, marketing, and partner relationships. Promote a culture of legal awareness across the organizations.

Served in visible leadership role for this 13,000 employee global communication products and services provider offering telephone products, video interpreting, and relay services. Provided legal direction to multiple departments including HR, Sales, Engineering, and Marketing. Managed $10M legal budget. Maintained accountability for privacy of hundreds of thousands of records. Led intellectual property (IP) program, including building, maintaining, and defending IP portfolio of 400 patents and trademarks. Directed IP development, including evaluation of inventions, patent applications, trademark registrations, and management of outside counsel. Reviewed, negotiated, and advised on commercial vendors and other legal agreements. Managed performance and professional efforts of IP and legal security resources. Presented updates to board of directors.Highlighted Achievements:– Won litigation against company’s biggest competitor including appeals to US Supreme Court and Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit; defined case strategy with outside counsel; directed oral arguments and briefings. • Overturned adverse $44M patent infringement judgment.• Enabled continuation of business with $500M+ annual revenue stream.– Built comprehensive global privacy program including maintaining regulatory adherence to new privacy laws in Europe [GDPR] and California [CCPA, CPRA] to support US, EU, UK, and Canada operations. – Designed and drove global IP strategy to guide invention promotion, patent protection, brand development, and trademark registration.– Acted as legal advisor for expansion program that included company’s first operations in Europe, establishment of international legal entities, acquisitions, first SaaS offering, and development of new products and services outside of existing business.

Assumed increasing levels of accountability over tenure as legal counsel for this global manufacturer and distributor of commercial fitness equipment, including StairMaster, Nautilus, Schwinn, Spinning, and Star Trac brands. Advised management on legal issues, including acquisitions, litigation, contracts, licenses, financing, corporate structure, intellectual property, import / export, employment, product design and defects, deposition preparation, and bankruptcy.

Prosecuted patents for software, electrical, mechanical, and business method inventions for Fortune 100 companies, medium and small businesses, and individuals. Worked with inventors to secure explanations regarding obscure inventions and identified protections through patents. Negotiated and drafted licensing and purchase agreements. Advised clients on business formation and employment agreement issues. Counseled clients on patent, trademark, and copyright issues.

Advised inventors on patent, trademark, and copyright issues. Prosecuted patents for mechanical, software, electrical, medical device, and business method inventions. Prosecuted trademarks before USPTO. Conducted patentability searches and drafted opinions.

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering