Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
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Managed and performed all aspects of Intellectual Property practice as sole IP attorney for $1B revenue company, reporting to General Counsel, with responsibility for $2.5M intellectual property budget. * Managed patent prosecution docket overseeing patent agent, patent docket administrator, and outside counsel for company’s diverse product line including Chromatography, Mass Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, X-Ray Diffraction, Optical Spectroscopy, Vacuum Technologies, and other research and scientific instruments and consumables. * Directed comprehensive 1500 case company-wide patent portfolio evaluation and review leading to reduction in maintenance costs of patent portfolio without sacrificing strategic protection. * Provided M&A support and due diligence for acquisitions including among others Varian’s April 2008 $37M acquisition of Oxford Diffraction, Ltd. * Responded to outside patent and trademark infringement allegations and counseled management re: same. * Prepared and negotiated company’s IP and other business related agreements, including technology, patent and software licenses, NDAs, reseller agreements, collaborative research agreements, etc. * Successfully negotiated a royalty-free cross license to resolve plaintiff’s action for trademark infringement against Varian in the UK. * Managed patent litigation filed by the State University of New York at Buffalo alleging patent infringement by Varian’s flagship NMR product. * Successfully negotiated a patent cross-license with Varian’s major competitor in the research NMR and MRI industry. * Provided M&A IP support for Agilent Technologies' $1.5B acquisition of Varian’s business, and the divestiture of several Varian product lines required for regulatory approval of the acquisition.