I was hired to create a US patent and intellectual property group in the US for a London based orthopedic medical device company to supplement the intellectual property group in the UK.
· Formed a US intellectual property group by ultimately hiring five patent and trademark attorneys, and put a full process in place to identify, evaluate, and file for patent protection on inventions.
· Multiple patent infringement lawsuits were both initiated and defended with excellent results for the company.
· Personally handled or managed numerous contractual matters.
· After several years, given worldwide responsibility over both the US and UK intellectual property groups; the operations were then combined and optimized on an international scale.
· Began an annual “IP Summit” to identify issues and goals for the combined IP groups, gaining commitment from all IP group members.
