WiLAN

General Counsel

• Conduct legal analysis and work with internal and external technology experts to create infringement analysis materials with respect to prospective licensee products.
• Participate in licensing meetings to provide legal support in asserting and defending patents.
• Provide input and manage external counsel on key patent matters such as infringement contentions, invalidity responses, claim construction positions and summary judgment, trial, or appellate level motions and briefs.
• Prosecute and manage one or more of the Company’s growing patent portfolios.
• Guide patent prosecution activities which include interactions with internal team members and external counsel with respect to the filing of new, continuation, divisional and/or foreign applications and responses to office actions and other ongoing prosecution tasks.
• Perform pre-transaction patent due diligence including title check, prosecution history review, prior art searches and infringement analysis review.

Patent Counsel

Vice President

• Manage and oversee one of the licensing teams of WiLAN’s technology portfolios
• Drive licensing revenue through considered assertions
• Manage the patent prosecution and acquisition teams with determinations of patentability and use in the industry
• Oversee and identify patent portfolio acquisitions, including searching, due diligence, and recommending patents and portfolios to acquire
• Manage prosecution and continuation practice in support of litigation and licensing programs for business unit’s projects
• Manage all technical support for licensing, business development, and litigation for business unit’s projects
• Manage technical team in the analysis of patents for infringement and create claim charts
• Manage patent acquisition and licensing negotiations by providing advice in response to substantive patent questions such as claim construction, infringement, and validity
• Analyze patents in WiLAN’s portfolio for potential applicability to products and/or standards
• Manage budgets and resources
• Find and retain external counsel and experts to support the business

Patent Counsel

Senior Vice President, Licensing