IP STRATEGY: Seattle 2015
The AIA has transformed the landscape: IP owners are finding it harder to monetize and enforce their patent portfolio and face growing hostility when they do.
Yet IP leaders are being asked internally to deliver on revenue targets by proactively monetizing, licensing, selling and enforcing their IP assets. This surge in IP commercialization means that companies now have to defend against infringement claims from rivals, corporate trolls, as well as NPEs.
IP leaders need to build a coherent offense/defense strategy on solid processes and tools: due diligence, portfolio evaluation, unified patent prosecution – all while benchmarking its effectiveness.
With increased scrutiny from company boards and the media, IP executives must also demonstrate top-level management skills: allocating resources, making a strong business case for their strategies and getting leadership on board.
The IP Strategy Summit covers all the challenges and opportunities of this new IP landscape.
- Portfolio Management – Aligning Business Goals with IP Strategy
- Designing a Prosecution Strategy for the Global Market
- Strategies for Dealing with NPEs - Fight or Flight
- The Price of Entry: Litigation & Enforcement
- Defending Against Infringement Claims from Operating Companies
- Post Issuance Proceedings - Their Role in Your IP Strategy
- Monetization for Operating Companies in a Post AIA & Alice World
- Chief IP Counsel
- VP & Director of IP Strategy
- Chief, Deputy and Associate General Counsel
- Intellectual Property, Trademark and Copyright Counsel
- Head of Litigation
- Director of Business and Legal Affairs
- Director/VP of Intellectual Property
- Director/VP of Licensing
- IP Counsel
- Patent Counsel
- VP & Director of Intellectual Asset Management
Intellectual Property Attorney with three years of experience conducting intellectual property due diligence analyses. Of note, provided buy side support in Emergent acquisition of Cangene Corp. (2014), in Emergent acquisition of EV-035 series from Evolva Holding SA (2014), and in Emergent acquisition of Healthcare Protective Products Division of Bracco Diagnostics In. (2013).
Five years of experience drafting and prosecuting life science and medical device patents in the corporate and law firm settings, two years litigation experience, named attorney on 25 U.S. patents, managed extensive worldwide trademark and patent portfolio, provided intellectual property training, and counseled clients on freedom to operate.
Specialties: Bioscience and Biodefense; technologies including protein, antibody, antibody scaffold, and small molecule; Intellectual Property Due Diligence; Patent Prosecution; Freedom to Operate and Patentability Analysis; Trade Secret Protection; and IP Litigation Support.
Tim Casey is a multidiscipline intellectual property and technology law attorney who often acts as a one stop IP shop for his clients, typically small to mid-size companies, by serving as their general counsel or IP/technology counsel. His practice also includes patent opinion, preparation, prosecution and monetization, strategic planning, and privacy, as well as trademark preparation, prosecution, and enforcement for startups to small businesses to large, international corporations. Additionally, he manages corporate due diligence support and technology transactional agreements. Prior to entering private practice, Tim spent his career creating and managing technology and intellectual property, then monetizing that technology and IP, whether through license, sale, or litigation. After more than a decade in-house in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., at technology companies; five years managing the IP and technology law department of a Wall Street firm, handling very large corporate transactions, licenses, and patent litigations; and seven years co-founding and co-running an IP-focused startup business services firm, he now represents clients across all of these areas. Tim has written and prosecuted thousands of patents worldwide across technologies such as electrical/electronics, computer science, mechanical, physics, and industrial. He has written business and technology contracts for companies ranging from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 500 companies. Tim has registered trademarks and copyrights for individuals and companies and managed portfolios of 10,000 or more trademarks and many thousands of copyright registrations. He has advised individuals on how to license and/or litigate single patents and managed litigations of large portfolios and involving hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. He has advised clients on privacy, Internet, and strategic issues and helped to negotiate the language in U.S. and European legislation, as well as international treaties. Tim serves as a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley, University of Nevada, Reno, and a number of other colleges and universities.
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Business, technology and IP executive with proven success in technology and product development and commercialization; intellectual property creation, portfolio strategies, management and commercialization; IP landscape and whitespace analysis; patentability search; patentability and freedom to operate analysis and opinions; IP due diligence; patent validity and infringement analyses; IP assets evaluation, acquisition, and licensing; technology transfer; IP strategy, patent portfolio development and trademark strategy for startups; inventors training, development, and management; patent preparation and prosecution in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutics, therapeutic methods, biotechnology, medical devices, polymers, material sciences, and nanotechnology; design patent preparation and prosecution; client counseling and case management; trademark searches and availability opinions; trademark registrations, oppositions, and cancellations; and limited amount of copyright work.
Specialties: Intellectual property practice in chemistry, materials, pharmaceutics, and biotechnology.
Stephen is currently Senior Corporate Counsel in T-Mobile’s Litigation Group. At T-Mobile, he manages patent and other intellectual property litigation and provides strategic counseling on various intellectual property matters. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Stephen served as Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft Corporation where he managed U.S. and international patent litigation in Microsoft’s Litigation Group dating back to 2001, and later handled various patent counseling, dispute resolution, and licensing related issues as part of Microsoft’s Innovation and Intellectual Property Group. As the second patent litigator hired at Microsoft, Stephen has been responsible for many large-scale and high stakes patent litigation matters, including the Lucent v. Microsoft series of cases that are cited to frequently in the context of patent damages reform. Prior to Microsoft, Stephen practiced at Latham & Watkins in Silicon Valley, California, where he also focused on patent litigation and other intellectual property disputes. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Law.
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VP-TS Intellectual Property, Cypress Semiconductor An IP strategist with a combination of technical, business and legal expertise, currently transforming the management of a portfolio of 3000+ patents and applications into a self-funding, business-driven, cross-corporate function delivering entitled ROI. David is also a prolific inventor with over 130 patents granted and pending, and a Patent Agent licensed to practice before the USPTO, reg # 69932. Daivd is responsible for management of a portfolio of ~2000 patents, ~1000 pending applications and the process of IP protection, generation and monetization. Directing systematic review processes to ensure comprehensive and cost-effective protection of strategic IP as it is created. Ensuring maximum ROI on IP$ by implementing systematic reviews of applications against business objectives. Creation, implementation and direction of processes to create and protect strategic IP in emerging technology areas adjacent to existing product lines and technologies.
