Finn Simmensen Email & Phone Number

Richardson, Tx

Assisting a leading operator of charter schools in Texas with internal processes related to governance, student discipline, records, regulatory affairs, expansion within Texas, international expansion, vendor relations.

Ca, Az, Nv

Attorney (CA). Registered, United States Patent and Trademark Office. Current representations are exclusively federal in matters before the USPTO and ancillary activities.Patents, patent applications, patent claim drafting and amendment. Patent search, opinion, freedom to use, freedom to operate, prior art, infringement, designing around patent claims. Provisional application for patent.Patent claim strategy. International patent application and PCT. Invention (patent) versus work of authorship (copyright), image and identity (trademark), trade secret (contract), and domain name (registration/ADR). Intellectual property strategy versus business model and the evolution of a start-up.Corporate: Patent preparation and prosecution, supervising outside counsel, managing trademark oppositions and litigation, identifying and tracking inventions, creations, logos, marks, symbols, and confidential plans. Overview of IP pipeline. Negotiate master service agreement (MSA), addendum, amendment, statement of work (SOW), nondisclosure agreement (NDA). Negotiate data service agreement, data license, escrow agreement. Negotiate vendor contract, supplier contract, customer contract.Training: Junior associate attorneys, IP department personnel including paralegals and secretaries, IP strategy for executives and team leaders.Public speaking and lecturing: teach IP fundamentals, teach general presentation skills for meetings and speeches where applicable to legal services.Art areas: cancer diagnostic platforms, optics, fluidics, robotics, software, laboratory information systems, medical devices, weapons and their accessories and couplings, sporting goods, tools, consumer products, footwear, design patents, computer-implemented business methods.

I spent more than a year on site with a Tucson, AZ manufacturer of cancer diagnostic platforms, where I:Developed and used sophisticated methods of analyzing large data sets I generated while conducting patent search and opinion projects using a variety of resources including Thomson Innovation®.Drafted and amended patent applications for cutting-edge inventions in the field of cancer diagnostic platforms. Negotiated with patent examiners and instructed domestic and international patent counsel in patent prosecution.

Scottsdale, Az

At this high-tech, high-touch IP boutique, I drafted, filed and amended patent applications in fields including neuroscience, nutrition, sports equipment, educational materials, and retail merchant services and assisted with copyright and trademark matters.

Santa Ana, Ca

At this fast-growing unit of a large financial sector company, I negotiated data licences and service contracts with numerous very large financial entities on behalf of a very large data provider. I critiqued and coached offshore attorneys’ drafting and negotiation of nondisclosure and data service agreements.I developed a system for managing large numbers of IP assets with options dependent on staffing. I participated in investigations and resolved matters in diverse areas including commercial leasing and immigration.

Greater Los Angeles Area

At this sophisticated, deeply connected, respected Los Angeles IP firm, I provided winning claim construction in the successful defense of a patent infringement suit.I conducted extensive research and opinion projects in the field of online gaming methods for start-up patent strategy, and in the field of footwear trademark and trade dress for infringement litigation.I drafted and amended patent applications in the fields of economic forecasting, biomedical research instruments, the coupling and accessorizing of weapons, footwear (utility), and extensive families of footwear design patents.I coached junior associates and trained paralegals and secretaries.

San Francisco Bay Area

At this small, extremely business-savvy IP boutique, I drafted and amended cutting-edge patent applications in the fields of vascular intervention/catheterization; minimally invasive devices for imaging, surgery, and drug delivery; hospital and sickroom supplies, and diving equipment for littoral and amphibious operations.I assisted with copyright litigation.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Law

UOP-McGeorge was a solid school, regionally very strong. It emphasized development of lawyering skills that would be serviceable.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biological Sciences

Activities and Societies: Chi Psi, Medspur, Karate, AikidoSummary: Rode a DC-10 from Bloomington, MN to LAX, started pre-Med, veered.

Physics

Courses at UCSD in math, EE, physics, and robotics exploring a possible switch to applied physics/optics while working part-time in San.

Certificate, Distance Education

Fundamentals of Web-centric delivery of instruction. Emphasis on content and curriculum development.

Certificate, Federal Acquisition Regulation (Far)

Fundamentals of FAR/DFAR -- the body of administrative rules governing the conduct of vendors to the United States Government and of those.