Experience

Access Advance LLC (Formerly HEVC Advance)

• Senior Vice President, Licensing

  • Sep 2020 - Present



Signify

• United States
• Advertising Services

• Senior IP Counsel

  • May 2018 - Sep 2020

  Signify, formerly known as Philips Lighting.Promoting and supporting an open patent license program in the field of LED light systems; responsibilities include identifying potential licensees, determining targets' need for a license, facilitating license agreement discussions including negotiation of legal and business terms; managing and directing litigation and contested proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. International Trade Commission, and district courts.Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected lighting systems and data-enabled services, deliver business value and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. With 2017 sales of EUR 7.0 billion, approximately 32,000 employees and a presence in over 70 countries, we unlock the extraordinary potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. News from Signify is located at the Newsroom, Twitter and LinkedIn. Information for investors can be found on the Investor Relations page.”



Philips Lighting Intellectual Property

• Senior IP Counsel

  • May 2011 - May 2018

  Promoting and supporting an open patent license program in the field of LED light systems; responsibilities include identifying potential licensees, determining targets' need for a license, facilitating license agreement discussions including negotiation of legal and business terms; managing and directing litigation and contested proceedings in the Patent Office Promoting and supporting an open patent license program in the field of LED light systems; responsibilities include identifying potential licensees, determining targets' need for a license, facilitating license agreement discussions including negotiation of legal and business terms; managing and directing litigation and contested proceedings in the Patent Office



Proskauer Rose LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate

  • Feb 2005 - May 2011

  Patent and trademark litigation and prosecution activities in a variety of engineering-related fields including preparing applications, drafting legal briefs, discovery, memoranda, correspondence, expert reports, and claim charts, interviewing witnesses, taking and defending depositions of fact and expert witnesses, managing litigation and discovery, directing and developing portfolio strategy, reviewing agreements, and mentoring junior attorneys and staff Patent and trademark litigation and prosecution activities in a variety of engineering-related fields including preparing applications, drafting legal briefs, discovery, memoranda, correspondence, expert reports, and claim charts, interviewing witnesses, taking and defending depositions of fact and expert witnesses, managing litigation and discovery, directing and developing portfolio strategy, reviewing agreements, and mentoring junior attorneys and staff



Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP

• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate

  • 2004 - 2005