Chief Legal Officer for corporate and governance compliance, and intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets) litigation, prosecution, and transactional matters. Extensive experience mergers, acquisitions, due diligence, and in health care, aerospace, mechanical, avionics, and software design engineering, as well as the capture and enforcement of intellectual property rights in the aerospace, software, automotive, medical device, and consumer products technology areas. Experienced in complex transactions, litigation, US patent post grant reviews, EPO oppositions, intellectual property transactional and prosecution (domestic and foreign), corporate and governmental transactional, and related matters.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW EXPERTExperience includes portfolio management and leveraging, licensing and contracts, invention disclosure review and analysis, computer hardware software patent expertise, supplier and distribution agreements, trademark search and clearance opinions, trademark policing activities, as well as complex IP analyses including validity, patentability, infringement, and enforceability opinions. Skilled in engineering/patenting design arounds, industry technology monitoring, third-party portfolio analysis and monitoring, inventor education, patent data mining, white space technology capture, and long term portfolio planning and management.COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE COUNSEL EXPERIENCEKnowledgeable in drafting, reviewing, analyzing, & negotiating complex multinational & commercial & governmental agreements, including supplier (long-lead, short-term, advanced production planning), distributor, sales, reseller, joint venture, & development agreements. Hands-on experience with federal procurement, export controls, and DOD and FDA requirements of the U.S. Code, CFRs, FARs, & DFARS, and related rules, procedures, & guidance.