Christopher King
Intellectual property (IP) lawyer focused on providing practical, business-focused, client-first service and specializing in patent counseling, IP-focused agreements, and IP transaction counseling
- Role
- Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Christopher King
Christopher (Chris) M. King is a senior counsel and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm\'s Mechanical & Electromechanical Technologies Practice and the Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Solutions Industry Teams.Chris provides a broad range of intellectual property (IP) services, focusing his work on patent counseling, IP-focused commercial agreements, and IP transaction counseling. As a patent counselor, he helps clients identify and implement the appropriate strategy to protect their innovations; identify and mitigate IP infringement risks by providing freedom to operate and clearance opinions and consulting on design arounds; and develop and implement enforcement strategies against competitors infringing on client patents. Chris regularly prepares and negotiates a wide range of IP-focused commercial agreements, including collaboration, license, joint development, services, and employee confidential information and invention assignment agreements. Chris routinely counsels clients on the IP aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other commercial transactions and prepares and negotiates the IP provisions of the transaction agreements and any ancillary IP agreements. Chris provides detailed insights and risk mitigation recommendations when conducting due diligence on IP ownership, IP disputes and infringement risks, registered IP portfolios, IP-focused agreements, corporate IP strategies and policies, and use of open source software by leveraging his experience from his IP counseling and agreement practices.Chris is a trusted business advisor to clients in numerous industries, including smart buildings, batteries and energy storage, engines and power generation, outdoor power equipment, electric vehicles, hydrogen generation and distribution, oil and gas, automation, hand tools, consumer products, and food service equipment. Chris provides pro bono services to Wisconsin inventors and entrepreneurs by volunteering at IP brief advice clinics through a virtual clinic that Chris helped LegalCORPS establish in Wisconsin and providing full patent application and drafting representation to low income inventors.Prior to entering law school, Chris was a manufacturing engineer with General Motors, where he supervised a department of skilled tradespersons.
Experience
Partner
Feb 2022 — Present
Education
Marquette University Law School
JD
2007 — 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS, Mechanical Engineering
1997 — 2001
Skills
- Commercial Litigation
- Trademarks
- Patents
- Legal Writing
- Patentability
- Patent Prosecution
- Legal Research
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Litigation
- Licensing
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