Kanda Ishihara
Senior IP Counsel at Lyft
- Role
- Senior Ip Counsel at Lyft
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kanda Ishihara
Seasoned product counsel and intellectual property strategist with over 15 years experience both in-house and in top-tier law firms (Fenwick, Morgan Lewis). Proven strategic patent and trademark portfolio development and management with a multi-million dollar budget and several thousand assets under management. Experienced in litigation support, patent asset analysis, portfolio review and classification, IP consultation for executive leadership and engineering teams, patent training for engineering teams, management of outside counsel, and client counseling. Specialties: Intellectual property law with emphasis on patent prosecution, intellectual property counseling and analysis. Represented clients in various technological fields including computer software and telecommunications as well as clients in the mechanical engineering, business methods and consumer product industries.
Experience
Senior Ip Counsel
Jul 2021 — Present
Manage and strategically develop patent portfolio of over assets worldwide, including closely managing patent outside counsel, including review of PTO submissions and providing instructions during various stages of prosecution.• Advise business and engineering teams on a variety of intellectual property-related issues, including negotiation of various technology agreements, including master services agreements and partnership agreements.• Lead and coordinate legal review of technical publications in collaboration with internal communications team.• Review incoming open source-related requests from technical team members as part of company’s Open Source Committee.• Review and assess incoming outside business activity requests as part of Conflicts Committee.• Provide patent litigation strategy counseling and support to internal litigation team.
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS
1993 — 1997
Santa Clara University School of Law
JD
2000 — 2003
Skills
- Licensing
- Patents
- Program Management
- Contract Management
- Intellectual Property
- Telecommunications
- Patent Prosecution
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