# Head of Intellectual Property résumé example

An IP function lead, written as portfolio growth, litigation outcomes and the licensing revenue the patents produced.

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## Hannah Lindqvist — Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property

Patent attorney with fifteen years across private practice and in-house, now leading a six-person IP function for a robotics manufacturer. Grew the portfolio from 140 to 480 issued patents with outside counsel spend held flat, and turned defensive cross-licensing into a $14M annual revenue line.

### Experience

**Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property**, Halcyon Robotics · February 2020 – present

Leads a team of six: three patent attorneys, a trademark counsel and two IP paralegals. Reports to the General Counsel.

- Grew the portfolio from 140 to 480 issued patents while holding outside counsel spend flat, by moving 70% of drafting to a fixed-fee panel.
- Ended a non-practicing entity campaign across four district court cases by filing three inter partes reviews; the board instituted on all three and the plaintiff dismissed for no payment.
- Built a $14M annual licensing line from nine cross-license agreements, two with the company’s closest hardware rivals.
- Rebuilt the trade secret program after a researcher departure, tightening access control and exit interviews across 900 R&D staff with no misappropriation claim since.
- Chairs the invention review board; disclosures rose from 0.4 to 1.3 per engineer per year once a filing bonus was tied to the review.

**Senior Patent Counsel**, Aveline Semiconductor · June 2015 – January 2020

- Managed the Section 337 investigation before the International Trade Commission that closed in a consent order protecting $90M of annual US sales.
- Prosecuted 210 applications in power management and RF circuits at a 78% allowance rate, 14 points above the art unit average.
- Cut average filing cost by 28% by rewriting the outside-counsel drafting template and moving foreign coverage to a PCT-first strategy.

**Patent Associate**, Kellerman Pike LLP · October 2011 – May 2015

- Drafted and prosecuted 130 applications for semiconductor and medical device clients while recording 1,900 chargeable hours a year.
- Ran freedom-to-operate studies for two product launches, clearing both after designing around nine blocking claims.

**Hardware Design Engineer**, Wrenfield Instruments · July 2006 – June 2008

- Designed the analog front-end boards for a benchtop test instrument that shipped 4,000 units, and is named as an inventor on two resulting patents.

### Education

- J.D. Law · University of California, Berkeley, School of Law · August 2008 – May 2011
- B.S. Electrical Engineering · Purdue University · August 2002 – May 2006

### Skills

- **Patent practice**: Prosecution, Portfolio strategy, Freedom to operate, Invention harvesting, PCT and foreign filing
- **Disputes**: Inter partes review, ITC Section 337, District court litigation, Claim construction, Settlement negotiation
- **Commercial IP**: Cross-licensing, Trade secrets, Trademark portfolios, Open-source review, IP diligence in M&A
- **Technical**: Robotics and controls, Power electronics, RF circuits, Embedded software, Computer vision