Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani Phoenix Intellectual Property Partner John Vassiliades will be a featured panelist in a US Department of Energy webinar titled "IP Strategy & Best Practices" on January 15, 2019 at 10 a.m. (PST) and 1 p.m. (EST).
Vassiliades will be joined by former CTO of BAE Systems John Wasson and marketing expert Jeff Carpenter. Vassiliades' panel will shed light on issues involved in developing IP strategy including tools to protecting your IP, ownership and royalties, freedom to operate, working with patent attorneys, and how to file. All three panelists are Prinicipal Advisors for the US Department of Energy's Commercialization Assistance Program.
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John Vassiliades is a registered patent attorney and has negotiated hundreds of business transactions that develop and monetize IP rights, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret licensing, R&D, M&A, IT, software, E-Commerce, Biotech/pharma, EdTech, agriculture, medical device, commercial OEM/VAR product distribution deals, strategic alliances, corporate technology collaborations, equity joint ventures, IP due diligence, patent strategy, risk assessments, among many other structures and projects, both domestic and international. He has also served on litigation teams as an IP advisor on cases involving computer software infringement, trade secret misappropriation, biotech patent infringement, Lanham Act trademark counseling and infringement and infringement involving mechanical/medical device inventions. Vassiliades concentrates his practice on intellectual property, technology transactions and general business law for private and public technology based companies.
Gordon & Rees is a national litigation and business transactions firm with more than 850 lawyers in offices across the United States. Our lawyers provide full service representation to public and private companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to start-ups. Founded in 1974, Gordon & Rees is recognized among the fastest growing and largest law firms in the country. Additionally, in 2018 Law360 ranked the firm among the top 40 largest U.S. firms and The American Lawyer ranked the firm among the top 45 on its Diversity Scorecard.