Toussaint Myricks, Of Counsel

Toussaint is Of Counsel for Hughes Media Law, founder and principal of the Law Offices of Toussaint L. Myricks, PLLC, and brings a wealth of experience as a patent lawyer, technology analyst and expert on patent portfolio management, valuation and intellectual property strategy. His current law practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications on inventions in the electrical and software art fields involving computer software systems, computer architecture, computer networks, multimedia systems, telecommunications/signal processing applications, artificial intelligence technologies and digital audio.

Toussaint was most recently Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of PatentCafe.com, Inc., an innovative developer of software products for patent portfolio management. Additionally, Toussaint served as the former Chief Patent Counsel for Vulcan Inc., where he developed, managed and established the strategic direction of its worldwide intellectual property portfolio of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as its internal processes for preparing and evaluating invention disclosures from engineering and applied research groups in the company. In support of the company’s investment activities, he also performed due diligence on intellectual property portfolios of target companies for acquisition and investment purposes. Prior to joining Vulcan Inc., Toussaint was an associate with the intellectual property law firm of Christensen, O’Connor, Johnson & Kindness, LLP.

In addition to his work as an intellectual property lawyer, Toussaint was formerly a consulting expert with the Law and Economics Consulting Group where he provided expertise on strategic business and economic aspects of intellectual property such as damages analyses, market issues, intellectual property valuation, and intellectual property management strategies, including the management and valuation of intellectual property for corporate reorganizations and workouts. He has also consulted on transfer pricing issues for high technology companies.

Toussaint holds degrees in electrical engineering from M.I.T and the University of Washington, and degrees in law from the Franklin Pierce Law Center. He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a registered patent agent with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and licensed to practice law in the State of Washington, in the District of Columbia and before the United States Supreme Court. He has had or currently maintains memberships with several major legal associations including the Washington State Bar Association, the King County Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is also the former Chair of the Seattle Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society.

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