Intellectual property and trade secrets in the modern era are predominantly stored as electronic records, or electronically stored information (ESI), which in turn increases the potential for misappropriation, exfiltration, or theft of these sensitive documents to unauthorized parties or entities outside the company domain. Historically, these electronic records have been saved to hard drives, file […]
David Kennedy

David Kennedy is a Senior Managing Director and Certified Public Accountant in Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held. David is an expert in intellectual property valuation and negotiating the economics of patent sales and licensing agreements. Acknowledged as one of the World’s Leading IP Strategists by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) for more than a decade, he has bought and sold patent portfolios, negotiated license agreements in commercial transactions, and helped clients establish royalty rates for individual patents and large portfolios of implementation and standard essential patents. He also has testified as a patent licensing and reasonable royalty expert in ICC International Arbitration proceedings and federal courts.