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Intellectual property counsel and business advisor with 13 years of in-house worldwide telecommunications patent licensing, litigation and policy experience at Nokia and 10 years of prior private practice district court and ITC patent litigation experience at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Successfully negotiate inbound/outbound patent and technology licenses at Nokia, monetization of patent portfolio with tens of thousands of individual assets, and patent divestments netting significant returns. Analyze, evaluate and defend against patent-related assertions brought against Nokia and its network operator customers, while overseeing outside counsel operating under multi-million dollar budgets. Represent company interests relating to IPR and patent policy before various government regulatory authorities and standard development organizations. USPTO barred. Federal judicial clerk. J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Michigan.

Listed skills include Intellectual Property, Patents, Licensing, Litigation, and 29 others.