Kevin Ransom

Member, Intellectual Property

Some of the services Kevin provides his clients include:

• Obtaining patent protection in the U.S. and non-U.S. patent offices.
• Infringement and invalidity investigations, product landscaping, and freedom to operate investigations, and product redesign assistance.
• Preparing and negotiating license, manufacturing, distribution, joint-venture, joint-development, royalty-sharing, intellectual property purchase agreements.
• Negotiating and performing due diligence involving intellectual property in a variety of debt and M&A transactions, including: preparing and negotiating intellectual property and regulatory compliance provisions; due diligence related to ownership, scope, product coverage, and overall legal value of intellectual property assets/ collateral; and analyzing material licenses and other commercial agreements to assess a range of issues, such as the scope of license rights, transferability, assignability, and termination provisions.