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Tucson, Az, Us

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Tucson, Arizona

Working with inventors and entrepreneurs to use patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and other intellectual property to further their business and life goals. We can help you form your business, protect it's most valuable intellectual assets, and enter into sound contracts and agreements to give your company the flexibility and security you need.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Design and develop business operations to support strategic partnerships to improve risk and opportunity planning, mitigation, and execution.

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Support and conduct strategic contract negotiations, business operations and policy implementation strategies that enhance performance and contribute to overall business success. Research and communicate with potential partners to establish and expand supply base partnerships. - Perform risk and opportunity analysis, develop mitigation plans and solutions to problems using ingenuity, creativity and innovation.- Utilize six sigma and sound business concepts to streamline practices and procedures to align with business goals and priorities.

Tucson, Az

Represent clients in a broad range of intellectual property and patent matters, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, transactions, and litigation.

- Performed all aspects of intellectual property counseling, including litigation, prosecution, licensing, and transactional counseling.- Participated in litigation in federal district courts, the Ninth and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the International Trade Commission and before the USPTO. - Performed patent and trademark prosecution before the USPTO for a broad spectrum of goods, services, and technologies, including software, mechanical engineering, medical devices, chemistry and semiconductor materials.- Evaluated, negotiated, and drafted intellectual property agreements including licensing agreements, partnering agreements, services agreements and development agreements.- Evaluated and counseled clients regarding use of limited startup resources in the procurement and enforcement of intellectual property, entering intellectual property agreements, licensing intellectual property, and evaluating business strategy positions, including by preparing freedom to operate and infringement analyses.

- Selected as one of two Lisa Fellows working with the Steve Lisa Group and AzTE to help identify, prosecute and license patents obtained on Arizona State University’s most commercially significant inventions. - Reviewed and analyzed the inventions, prepared and filed patent applications, helped formulate and initiate licensing and enforcement programs and helped develop faculty inventor education program.

J.D., Intellectual Property

Activities and Societies:  Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from the Center for Law, Science and Technology;  Willard Pedrick.

B.Sc, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Engaged with the Latino population in southern Florida as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ.

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