Bio

Alan is a Patent Counsel and Patent Strategist with both law firm and in‐house experience. He works with clients ranging from start‐ups to publicly traded companies to help them develop and implement strategies for protecting their intellectual property, and to address issues that arise in the course of their business operations. He has extensive experience in building and managing high value patent portfolios based on complex technologies. He also assists clients to design and implement in‐house Patent Programs, including a program’s infrastructure and processes. Alan works with executive, scientific, engineering, and product management personnel to identify innovations in a client’s products and services and to develop an appropriate protection strategy, taking into account long term business objectives, budget, and the competitive environment. He has also pioneered the delivery of patent related services using an outside patent counsel model that has proven to be both cost-effective and valuable to clients. In addition to patent program and patent portfolio management, as part of this type of role he is often asked to participate in invention mining or brainstorming sessions with engineers and product development personnel.