John Kivus Email & Phone Number

With over a decade of experience, John uses his deep engineering expertise to help software companies avoid and resolve complex legal disputes. His software expertise allows him to effectively prevent or resolve disputes through contracts, transactions, or litigation by providing strategic advice based on detailed, up to the minute industry knowledge. John also works closely with a variety of other businesses and individuals on intellectual property disputes.John’s litigation and dispute resolution work focuses on software companies in conflict with other companies or individuals. These disputes frequently relate to the licensing and ownership of software and often involve IP issues such as copyright and trade secrets. His breadth of experience working on software projects for major corporations provides him the earned knowledge to help his clients decipher the complex interplay between technical, factual, and legal issues. His technology background also enables him to speak the same language as experts on complicated matters, including software code analysis and system architecture which can significantly expedite the early-stage navigation of disputes.John also helps software companies avoid disputes. He spent years as a software engineer developing products before turning his attention to law and intellectual property. John uses his knowledge of software development and litigation experience to advise companies on how best to avoid pitfalls that may lead to litigation in the first place. He also drafts contracts and guides companies through transactions to help sidestep common issues that he sees in litigation.At the other end of the spectrum, John is a fan of pop culture and uses his legal skills to help artists protect their IP rights. His clients include authors, artists, comic book creators, photographers, and other individuals who produce creative works. He advises them on both the intellectual property and business aspects of their work.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Started my first of 3 years in Law School in August of 2008

Software Engineer working on the development of a DB2 / MaxDB of the company's database manager product.

I started off my time at DST as a User Interface developer. I worked primarily developing administration screens for the company’s core customer management and billing product. I then moved on to designing those screens, writing specifications for them and leading a team of developers to fully implements my designs.After successfully delivering my administration interface, I moved onto the team responsible for developing the overall architecture of the next release of our product. When the high level architecture had been established, I began working on a complete redesign of the company’s transactions calculation and taxation engine, with the ultimate goal to create pluggable interfaces to a wide variety of tax applications.When not working on my primary assignments, I was involved with a number of processes improvements, such as: creating unit testing frameworks and automating developer environment setup.

As the lead developer in the organization, I was responsible for the design and implementation of a number of complete web applications. The most robust were: (1) an application used for the submission of medical claims, (2) an application that processes the results of a large number of surveys into a statistical data warehouse and (3) an application that could be used to generate websites for educational organizations.In addition to my development duties, I was the server administrator for the application server, web server, and email server. This involved both maintaining the servers that were in place, and configuring new servers as they became necessary.

J.D

Bs, Computer Information Systems

Minor in Business Administration