Mr. Lee, a director in the Electronics Group, focuses his practice on working with companies to strategically protect and leverage their IP assets. He has extensive experience protecting inventions in a diverse range of technologies, including wireless transceivers; analog and digital control systems; computer processor and memory architectures; graphics processing units; expert systems; medical devices; and bioinformatics. Mr. Lee has a particular focus in the software, e-commerce and financial services/business method areas with over 15 years of experience protecting such inventions in the United States and throughout the world.
Mr. Lee counsels on a wide range of technology-related transactions, including joint development agreements, strategic alliances, license agreements, asset purchase agreements, contractor and services agreements, shrink wrap license agreements and manufacture/supply agreements. He is a Certified Licensing ProfessionalTM.
Experienced with inter partes related matters, Mr. Lee assists his clients with the analysis of and strategies relating to infringement, validity and enforcement positions in a variety of contexts, including litigation, licensing and acquisition matters; analysis, strategy and response to assertive licensing claims; due diligence investigations performed in conjunction with mergers and acquisitions; and re-examination proceedings.
Prior to joining Sterne Kessler, Mr. Lee was employed for a number of years as an engineer in the computer and communications industries. He developed and integrated hardware and software for computer-controlled communication systems. Mr. Lee is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
Mr. Lee was named to the Certified Licensing Professionals Inc. 2011-12 Board of Governors. He is also a Vice President of the Licensing Executives Society (USA/Canada). In 2007, he was Meeting Chair for the LES Winter Meeting in San Francisco. He was also featured as one of IAM 250's "World's Leading Patent & Technology Licensing Lawyers" in 2010 and 2011.
Technical Publications
"The 2005 Patent Landscape for Electronics Companies," Practising Law Institute Coursebook, March 2005, (co-author).
"Business method patents for financial products and services," IP Value 2005, January 2005, (co-author).
"Patenting Bioinformatics Inventions –Practical Considerations," Proceedings of the AIPLA 23rd Mid-Winter Institute, January 2000 (co-author).
"When Worlds Collide: Patents Grow at the Interface of Software and Biotechnology," Legal Times Special Report on Intellectual Property, April 1997 (co-author).
"Preparing and Prosecuting Electronic and Computer Related Patent Applications: Avoiding and Overcoming Statutory Subject Matter Rejections," IDEA, 1993 (co-author).
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