IP Portfolio Management: Speakers

Training Week #1
Patent Portfolio Strategic Management
INPI, Lisbon - 26-28 April 2011
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Legal Education
J.D., Brigham Young University Law School, April 2001.

Bar and Court Admissions
Virginia State Bar, 2004; Reg. No. 68436.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2002; Reg. No. 52,020.
Utah State Bar; 2001; Reg. No. 09131.

Engineering Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, June 1987.
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, August 1984.
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, April 1983.

Professional Experience
Vice-President and Chief IP Counsel, CGGVeritas, Paris, France (August 2010 – present)
Responsible for providing in-house counsel on all IP-related matters; preparing freedom-to-practice opinions; drafting, negotiating and managing licenses, third party technology developments, and non-disclosure agreements; evaluating invention disclosure submissions; preparing and filing US and foreign patent applications; and supervising the work of outside counsel.

Senior Patent Counsel, General Electric, Houston, Texas and Shelton, Connecticut (March 2006 – August 2010)
Responsible for providing in-house counsel on all IP-related matters for a leading producer of pressure control devices for the oil and gas industry. Responsibilities also included U.S. and international patent preparation and prosecution, IP counseling, and management of outside counsel for GE Aviation and GE Energy.

Associate, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier, & Neustadt, P.C., Alexandria, VA (May 2003 – March 2006)
Primary responsibility included drafting and prosecuting patents covering a wide range of mechanical technologies and limited electrical and semiconductor devices, counseling clients in IP matters, and drafting patentability, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions.

Consultant, TraskBritt, Intellectual Property Attorneys, Salt Lake City, UT (Sep. 2001-May 2003)
Drafted and prosecuted semiconductor patents. Organized successful client development effort in South America.

Tenured Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University (Jun. 1987-Aug. 2003)
Responsible for obtaining and supervising more than 4.5 million dollars in fundamental and applied research from federal funding agencies and industrial sponsors in the thermo-sciences area, including fundamental and applied combustion, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, laser-based instrumentation, and computational fluid mechanics. Author or co-author of five invited papers, fundamentals of combustion textbook, book chapters, and reviews, 46 archival journal publications, 48 conference papers, and 28 invited lectures in 9 countries. Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, Jet Engine Design, Combustion, Thermodynamics, and Instrumentation.

Mr. Bond joined TraskBritt in 1983 and became a shareholder with the firm in 1993. As Head of the firm’s foreign intellectual property department, Mr. Bond practices before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Bond’s practice includes all areas of intellectual property law with an emphasis in formulating domestic and international design patent protection programs and registrations for consumer products.

Mr. Bond has established a firm, Laurence Bond Solicitors, with an office in Cambridge, England, independent of, and unaffiliated with TraskBritt through which he undertakes representation of clients in international intellectual property matters in the European region.

Areas of Practice
• Design Patents
• International
• Patent Prosecution
• Trademark & Copyright
• Transactional & Licensing

Technology Areas
• Computers, Software and Information Technology
• Internet & E-Commerce
• Mechanical & Aerospace
• Medical Devices
• Optical Technology

Technical Expertise
• Extensive experience in obtaining design protection for consumer products
• Practice focuses primarily on U.S. and foreign patent application preparation and prosecution with emphasis on complex machinery and systems
• Significant expertise in the filing and prosecution of utility patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)