Keith brings his significant experience managing and participating in major licensing and cross-licensing negotiations, managing standards organizations, preparing and negotiating industry standards agreements, and monitoring the impact of standards on patent portfolios.

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He has been responsible for reviewing third-party products for infringement, managing strategic patent prosecution procedures and applications, reviewing disclosures and products for patentability, reviewing patent portfolios to identify important patents and applications, and reviewing third-party infringement claims. Keith is very experienced in developing prior art, litigation claim charting and working with expert witnesses.

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Admissions

• Texas

• U.S. District Court - Southern District of Texas

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

 

Memberships

• Licensing Executives Society

• American Bar Association

• American Intellectual Property Law Association

• Houston Bar Foundation

• Houston Intellectual Property Law Association

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Education

• University of Cincinnati, BS, summa cum laude

• University of Texas School of Law, JD, with honors

 

Recognitions

• AV® Preeminent™, listed by Martindale-Hubble®

• 2018–2020, listed in IAM Patent 1000

• 2016–2020, “IP Star,” listed in Managing IP (“MIP”) Magazine

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Professional Activities

• Member of the Licensing Executives Society

  • Co-chair of the LESI High Tech committee

  • Former trustee of the USA & Canada Society

• Served as chair of the State Bar of Texas’ local grievance committee for many years

• Former faculty member of University of Houston Law Center and the former University of Houston Patent Review Board.

• Authored numerous papers on standards, computer and copyright law topics, and has been a speaker on standards organizations, computer law and intellectual property law at numerous events