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• Talented licensing/transactional attorney and business professional with substantive intellectual property, licensing and general corporate experience.• Exceptional contract drafting and negotiation skills with a focus on complex software licenses, intellectual property, and technology agreements including: patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright licenses; digital content licensing and distribution; hardware and software development agreements; sales agreements; and procurement and IT contracts (including enterprise computing, databases, and hosting, co-location and SaaS/cloud computing services). • High degree of legal, business and technical acumen, with well-honed advisory skills and an aptitude for providing timely, practical, strategic, commercially-focused and solution-driven legal counsel. • Experience and expertise in data collection, analytics and reporting; computer and data security; and consumer privacy policies, best practices and regulatory compliance.• Proven expertise advising on advertising, marketing, e-commerce and digital media matters, including copy clearance for new product and service promotions.• Experience and expertise negotiating and settling disputed claims with clients, subcontractors, vendors, and rights-holders.• Skilled at identifying and providing sound legal counsel on telecommunication and other regulatory issues, laws and public policies that impact existing and new lines of business.• Extensive experience developing and directing intellectual property programs to identify and protect inventions, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. • Effective negotiator in multi-party environments; experience working with standards-setting organizations, patent pools, licensing authorities, and joint ventures. • Solid technical background in telecommunications; digital video; cable, satellite and Internet content distribution; and digital rights management (DRM), copy protection and encryption.

Listed skills include Intellectual Property, Strategic Sourcing, Licensing Agreements, Antitrust, and 42 others.