rick nordgren

senior ip counsel

About

Senior Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property (Patents, Open Source and Licensing) at Symantec

Country

united states

City

draper

Industry

computer software

Skill

patent prosecution, patents, intellectual property, invention, corporate law, trademarks, licensing, legal writing, legal research, trade secrets, copyright law, litigation, courts, patentability, patent applications, trademark infringement, software patents, registered patent attorney, litigation support

Experience

senior ip counsel

broadcom

2019-11 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

law clerk

gallian welker & beckstrom, lc

2007-5 - 2007-8 · 4 mos

contract programmer

inpowered

2004-10 - 2004-12 · 3 mos

Programmed POS software (Java, Tapestry web framework)

programmer and analyst

decisive environment

2002-11 - 2004-8 · 1 yr 10 mos

Designed and programmed web-based regulation management system (Java, Java Server Pages, Struts, SQL, HTML, and Javascript).

patent agent

kunzler & associates

2007-8 - 2008-5 · 10 mos

Drafted and prosecuted patent applications, performed patent searches.

software engineer

waterford institute

2005-1 - 2005-8 · 8 mos

* Programmed and managed company * s education software (Java, SQL).

software quality assurance intern

evans & sutherland

2001-1 - 2002-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Performed daily quality assurance testing, product installation, and product verification.

registered patent attorney

kunzler law group

2008-5 - 2012-10 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Drafted and prosecuted patent applications before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Drafted over 60 software-related applications from scratch. Example technologies include analytics, networking, web applications, web services, service-oriented architecture, operating systems, social networking, virtual machines, databases, and handheld electronic devices. Performed patentability analyses, drafted license agreements, performed patent and trademark searches, and prosecuted trademark applications, and performed IP litigation including drafting motions, complaints, and other pleadings.

senior corporate counsel, intellectual property

symantec

2017-7 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

Patent Prosecution. Interface with business units and develop patent strategy, work with engineers to identify inventions and draft invention disclosure forms (IDFs), moderate and participate in patent filter meetings to select IDFs to be filed as patent applications, manage sizable patent portfolio, and supervise outside counsel in drafting and prosecuting patent applications. Technologies include analytics, big data, security, Machine Learning and cloud. Open Source Legal Compliance. Perform open source legal compliance, review product open source components as part of release cycle, solve challenging open source issues as they arise, and develop techniques and workflows to optimize open source review. Licensing. Support product teams in technology licensing matters, draft and negotiate license and partnership agreements, and participate in the product release readiness process.

corporate counsel, intellectual property

symantec

2012-10 - 2017-7 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is the global leader in cybersecurity. Operating one of the world's largest cyber intelligence networks, we see more threats, and protect more customers from the next generation of attacks. We help companies, governments and individuals secure their most important data wherever it lives. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Symantec has operations in 39 countries and employees 11,000 world wide.