Chris helps clients to advance their business objectives and mitigate risk by acting as a trusted advisor and providing strategic thinking, pragmatic problem-solving and proactive counsel . To each client engagement, he brings a business based approach and legal acumen refined over more than 25 years of law firm and corporate environments. His clients range from multinational Fortune 50 corporations to midsize and startup companies. He provides creative and strategic solutions for protecting and licensing intellectual property.
Chris performs non-infringement and invalidity opinions, licensing, and patent preparation and prosecution, both domestic and international. Chris assists clients with IP portfolio analysis, trademark prosecution, mediation of intellectual property disputes, right-to-use opinions, patent invalidity opinions, non-infringement opinions, technology transfer and licensing counseling, and due diligence for divestitures and acquisitions. Chris prepares international patent portfolios in a wide variety of technologies, with a particular emphasis in data center processors, cloud-based software, machine learning processors, artificial intelligence processors and related software, wireless communications, data security, and digital and analog circuit design.
Chris has assisted clients in patent assertion and defense actions and represented companies before the International Trade Commission and district courts throughout the United States. He has significant appellate experience and has advocated for clients before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Before joining the firm, Chris worked in-house for a corporate intellectual property legal department and as a shareholder, thought leader and group leader of the patent practice team of an AM LAW 50 law firm in Chicago. Prior to attending law school, he worked as an electrical engineer, designing digital processors, digital control systems and developing associated software.
- American Bar Association
- Group Leader of the patent practice team of an AM LAW 50 law firm in Chicago
- Chicago Bar Association, past president of Patent, Trademark and Copyright section of CBA