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EXPERTISE

Keith Rutherford brings years of outside law firm experience coupled with extensive in-house legal experience to bear on solving clients’ problems.

At Wong Cabello Mr. Rutherford’s practice has focused on patent litigation, IP strategy, pre-litigation conflict resolution, licensing/deal negotiations, analysis of patent portfolios both for offensive and defensive purposes, opinion work, and prosecution management. He has managed all phases of litigation for cases involving diverse technologies and cases involving large amounts of produced documents, multi-patent cases, and cases where witnesses appear through translators. He has first-chaired and second-chaired Markman hearings in oil field and computer electronic fields. He has handled cases where the alleged sales base at risk exceeded a billion dollars.

Mr. Rutherford has consistently provided positive, cost-effective results for clients in litigation. He has negotiated numerous patent licenses and other IP related agreements. He has managed analysis of patent portfolios ranging from small, to those containing thousands of patents. He has favorably resolved a number of disputes for clients without the need of litigation. Mr. Rutherford works in a number of technology areas with particular emphasis in electronics, computing, telecommunications, VoIP and oilfield.

EDUCATION

  • J.D., with honors, The University of Texas School of Law
  • B.S. in Petroleum Engineering, with honors, The University of Texas

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

  • State of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Partner, Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP
  • Vice President of Business Development, Questia Media, Inc.
  • Associate General Counsel IP, Questia Media Inc.
  • Senior IP Counsel, Compaq Computer Corp.
  • Attorney, Arnold, White & Durkee
  • Subsurface Engineer, Exxon

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND AWARDS

  • Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Member, Licensing Executive Society
  • Member, Houston Intellectual Property Law Association

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

  • "Portfolio Mining – Sweat Equity Pays Dividends" LES Annual Meeting 2005

 
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