Christopher Honea is a Partner at the firm. Chris focuses his practice in the area of Intellectual Property, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, computer and unfair competition law. Before joining GLG, Chris was in-house counsel for a group of start-up companies, including Evolution Resources, Evolution Fuels, Southwest Resources and Big Star Media, in which he gained valuable experience in negotiating, acquiring and protecting intellectual property and proprietary information with employees, consultants, joint ventures, investors through employment agreements, non-compete agreements, and nondisclosure agreements. This experience provides Chris insight as to what companies are looking for in outside counsel and an appreciation of the costs. Chris graduated from University of Oklahoma with a J.D. with Distinction in 2004 and also with B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Special Distinction in 2001. Chris Honea has practiced patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation for seven years, representing companies such as Sony Electronics, IBM, Intuit, and Roche Molecular. Chris spent three years in the Eastern District of Texas while at the law firm of McKool Smith in Dallas, most notably representing i4i, Inc. in which the company was awarded over $290 million against Microsoft in patent infringement action relating to their XML technology used in Microsoft Office. He is licensed to practice law in California and Texas. Chris Honea is admitted to the following courts:Eastern District of Texas.Northern District of Texas.Northern District of California.Central District of CaliforniaU.S. Supreme Court of California.U.S. Supreme Court of Texas..