Matthew Smyth Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• I help medical innovators, entrepreneurs, in-house teams and investors navigate the legal, intellectual property and business landscape to bring innovation to market faster.• Specific expertise: legal strategy, intellectual property, licensing, agreements, business models, entity formation and structuring, product development, funding, regulatory approvals, and internal processes and playbooks.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Guided 100+ new product development efforts annually within $5.6B Safety & Productivity Solutions business by structuring appropriate agreements, providing freedom to practice (FTP) analyses/mitigation, and harvesting critical inventions.• Rebuffed, without litigation or license, patent and trademark threats; drove Inter Partes Review (IPR) and European Opposition efforts to protect significant annual revenue streams.• Secured $3.9M of research and development effort from universities and third-party commercial partners to assist advanced technology and product teams with $20M+/year development projects; established processes and milestones for developing technology with third parties.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Counseled and advised teams across 20 lines of business ($2.5B/year) to avoid risks associated with IP, research and development (R&D), manufacturing, trade compliance, tax, and data privacy.• Developed a high-performing team of analysts, paralegals, and outside firms to provide pro-business risk mitigation; delivered 6X return on investment in first year for newly created position; coached analysts to realize 75% improvement in cycle time.• Drove process improvements to reduce cycle times for IP and legal reviews; developed and leveraged tools to regularly realize 10% annual patent portfolio maintenance savings.• Helped settle global patent litigation with key Fortune 100 competitor; guided offensive lawsuit against former supplier. • Led a global, multi-functional team in developing business models, resolving data privacy challenges, and negotiating agreements and licenses to launch $750K/year Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.• Conducted M&A due diligence on multiple $100M+ targets; executed functional integration following $1.4B acquisition of Sperian Protection.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Saved a $140M divestiture at the 11th hour by developing a strategy to push through an IP-related impasse and by directly negotiating the agreements to implement that strategy.• Secured $16M long-term deal by navigating around IP sticking points; drafted and negotiated non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and long-term agreements.• Counseled and advised teams across 3 lines of business ($700M/year) to avoid IP risks and secure strategic IP protection; managed 800-member patent portfolio through entire life cycle.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Prepared non-infringement and invalidity opinions; reexamination requests; FTP analyses; and offensive/defensive due diligence assessments of patent strength, potential countersuits, and validity of asserted patents—for microprocessors; semiconductors; wireless technology; electronic commerce; and optical, medical and pharmaceutical devices.• Advised clients on U.S. and foreign patent protection, including where and how to file, and strategy for claims and prosecution.• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications for electrical devices/interfaces, power supply components, medical/implantable devices, smart card security, software frameworks, user interfaces, database/network search algorithms, search query processing, and data synchronization.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Led hardware design efforts for 2 single-processor modules and assisted in the design of Artesyn’s first multi-processor, hot-swappable telecommunications routing board for telephone and data networking applications. • Coordinated development initiatives between hardware and software design teams; uncovered defect in supplier’s interface chip and led efforts with internal teams and supplier to resolve.• Developed technical, project management, and risk-mitigation expertise by initiating cross-functional discussions to solve design issues and by attending project management classes.• Engineered T1/E1, H.110, and ATM communication interfaces; Motorola microprocessor-based designs; and VHDL-based designs using programmable logic devices (PLDs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). • Drove quality system and safety improvements as a volunteer internal ISO 9001 auditor; helped maintain structure and certification that enabled increased sales and productivity.

Executive Education, Finance & Accounting

Juris Doctor, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Order of the Coif; Intellectual Property Students Organization (Co-President, 2003)

Bs, Electrical Engineering, With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi