Christopher Hamaty Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

San Jose, Ca

Engage in all aspects of patent procurement including, but not limited to, prior art search/assessment, patent application preparation, and strategic prosecution, incorporating competitive intelligence to increase the value of resulting patents. Counsel clients regarding infringement/validity issues, as well as support licensing campaigns.

Irving, Texas

Key Responsibilities• Protected company’s IP in enterprise software, infrastructure, and server-side software and service technologies, including coordinating IP collection and early concept identification across product and service development organizations. • Identified patentable inventions and determined IP protection strategies for technologies under development and strategically prepared and prosecuted patent applications with charted relevancy to standards and potential… Show more Key Responsibilities• Protected company’s IP in enterprise software, infrastructure, and server-side software and service technologies, including coordinating IP collection and early concept identification across product and service development organizations. • Identified patentable inventions and determined IP protection strategies for technologies under development and strategically prepared and prosecuted patent applications with charted relevancy to standards and potential competitors. • Generated strategies for U.S. and foreign patent applications and reviewed office action responses to ensure claims aligned with areas of highest business value. Key Takeaways• Provided business value perspective related to more than 30 product and service roadmaps that helped the patent committee more effectively identify IP for protection. • Created a streamlined process for reviewing high and low priority inventions in advance of patent committee review that improved timely handling of time-sensitive and high-priority inventions in support of company business strategies with more than 35% of inventions approved in advance of patent committee review.• Performed strategic targeted analysis of patent portfolios that spurred creation of commercially relevant intellectual property. Reviewed more than 100 application families against licensing targets resulting in multiple charted correlations that enhanced company position in cross-licensing negotiations with telecommunications industry competitor. Show less

Plano, Texas

Key Responsibilities• Identified, protected and enforced globally company IP, including patents and trademarks, and managed US & foreign patent preparation/prosecution of a patent portfolio having 327 issued patents and 353 pending patent applications for all company technologies.• Coordinated trademark/brand protection across all products and services. Interacted with six separate business units, each with own management, budget, and research and development teams, releasing and… Show more Key Responsibilities• Identified, protected and enforced globally company IP, including patents and trademarks, and managed US & foreign patent preparation/prosecution of a patent portfolio having 327 issued patents and 353 pending patent applications for all company technologies.• Coordinated trademark/brand protection across all products and services. Interacted with six separate business units, each with own management, budget, and research and development teams, releasing and updating more than 50 products and services.• Globally managed six litigation suits involving IP, brands, software, and licenses.• Analyzed agreements and performed due diligence during seven acquisitions and business transactions.• Directed the IP department, including two paralegals, two attorneys, and outside counsel.• Performed pre-publication review of marketing and promotional materials.Key Takeaways• Increased size of patent portfolio by a multiple of ten, and spearheaded a strategic prosecution initiative that incorporated competitive intelligence during patent procurement and documented the same for successful use during licensing.• Reviewed patent portfolio against competitor’s products and successfully charted three patents for licensing purposes.• Facilitated an acquisition of secure wireless router technology while managing all legal issues.• Implemented a company policy and approval process for open source software.• Instructed developers regarding use of open source software, particularly with respect to static, dynamic and run-time linking of open source software and implications to licensing requirements.• Provided legal guidance regarding company name change.• Successfully moved key trademark from Supplemental Register to Principle Register by showing acquired distinctiveness.• Achieved settlement of multiple patent litigation suits on favorable terms that avoided disruptions to product releases and saved millions of dollars in legal fees. Show less

Arlington, Virginia

Prepared and prosecuted patent and trademark applications. Prepared patentability opinions and clearance opinions. Worked on a clearance study of existing patents that allowed a large information technology company to complete acquisition of a new product line.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Prepared and prosecuted patent and trademark applications, as well as copyright registrations. Prepared patentability, infringement and validity opinions. Assisted patent litigation. As part of due diligence during acquisition of a start-up company by a larger organization, identified patentable subject matter and worked to obtain patent protection in the market landscape so that new products could be quickly launched.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Prepared and prosecuted patent applications. Prepared patentability and infringement opinions. Assisted in copyright and trade secret matters. Aided client in developing and disseminating policies and procedures for handling and protecting intellectual property that enabled inventions to be more quickly reviewed and acted upon.

Long Beach, California

Prepared and prosecuted patent applications. Prepared patentability, infringement and validity opinions. Performed trademark searches and prepared right-to-use opinions. Performed copyright searches and prosecuted copyright registrations. Assisted in trade secret litigation and trade dress litigation. Assisted the successful resolution of intellectual property litigation in the course of a partnership dissolution that allowed a client to continue to grow his business without disruption to… Show more Prepared and prosecuted patent applications. Prepared patentability, infringement and validity opinions. Performed trademark searches and prepared right-to-use opinions. Performed copyright searches and prosecuted copyright registrations. Assisted in trade secret litigation and trade dress litigation. Assisted the successful resolution of intellectual property litigation in the course of a partnership dissolution that allowed a client to continue to grow his business without disruption to sales or product development. Show less

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Law

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering