Attorney specializing in intellectual property working in a global corporate enterprise. Currently employed at IBM supporting high profile products and projects in the Cloud and Healthcare business units. Experiences include counseling IBM developers, designers and business leaders about a large variety of legal issues; drafting and negotiating inbound and outbound software licenses, patent licenses and other technology agreements; joint development and research agreements, and extensive experience with invention development, patent application preparation and filing, and prosecuting patent applications. Other duties involve counseling on the use of open source software, conducting acquisition and divestiture due diligence, and participation in standards activities. Support a wide variety of teams and technologies including Watson, Watson Health, POWER processors, Cloud and Research projects, among others. Lead negotiating large multi-million dollar software and technology licensing deals.Focus areas: technology license negotiation; IP strategy development; patent, trademark and copyright protection; intellectual property and general corporate litigation support; acquisition and divestiture due diligence; legal budget and process management; technologies: computer hardware; application and operating system software; cloud software and services; and social media.
