Alan Kendrick

2014 - Current

AKIP Legal - Laguna Beach, CA

Intellectual Property Attorney

• Patent research; patentability of emerging technologies, patent landscape and whitespace analysis, freedom to operate, due diligence. • IP analysis and assessment in the aerospace, mechanical, industrial, energy, medical, materials, food technology and automotive arts among others. • Patent litigation support and invalidity research. • Software developer and licensing agreements; master, end-use, open source. • Trademark counseling: strategy, clearance and risk analysis, registration. • Trademark litigation: infringement, opposition and cancellation actions. • Copyright counseling. • Trade secret counseling. • Contract and licensing review.

2011 - 2014

Nerac - San Diego, CA

Intellectual Property and Engineering Research Analyst

- Intellectual property research; patentability of emerging technologies, patent landscape, freedom to operate, due diligence. - IP analysis and assessment in the aerospace, mechanical, industrial, energy, medical, materials, food technology and automotive arts. - Patent litigation support and invalidity research. - Patent licensing support, portfolio evaluations and opportunity vetting. - Regulatory and Standards research and support; FDA, EMEA., ASME, SAE, ASTM, NSF, ISO, foreign regulations and standards. - Product development research, state of the art research, R&D support and technical vetting. - Scientific, technical and scholarly publications research; prior art and technical solutions research. - Competitive intelligence research, market, IP and technology portfolio analysis.

2001 - 2004

Cermák Horejš Myslil – Attorneys at Law and Patent Attorneys - Prague, CZ

Intellectual Property Attorney

Patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition litigation. • Develop and prepare petitions and responses for first and second instance decision cases (primary and appellate cases) involving patent, trademark and copyright infringement and unfair competition. • Trademark prosecution (clearance, risk analysis and registration). • Trademark cancellation and opposition actions at the national and international levels. • Trademark enforcement regarding anti-piracy and customs seizures. • Domain name disputes, negotiations and acquisitions. • Pharmaceutical patent infringement litigation. • Due diligence in relation to IP matters within mergers and acquisitions. • Negotiate and prepare instruments for trademark and domain name assignments, sales agreements, patent, trademark and copyright licensing agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements and other intellectual property agreements. • Analyses of foreign patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and business law. • Legal research and writing involving intellectual property cases; patents, trademarks, copyrights, business and unfair competition. • Prepare legal opinions and case specific analysis for all aspects of intellectual property law, economic competition, trade and commercial law. • Contract and licensing review. • Prepare and review license and contract manufacturing agreements.

1991 - 2000

Jacobs Engineering/Sverdrup Technology, Inc. - Moffet Field, CA

Sr. Mechanical/Aerospace Systems Design Engineer

Sverdrup Technology is a support service contractor providing engineering design, analysis and management services for NASA at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. • Project management: Initial cost and schedule estimates, design concept, design and • analysis, fabrication and installation supervision and support, documentation. EDUCATION • Mechanical design, analysis and fabrication/installation supervision for a variety of project types: Wind tunnel design, modification and modernization. Large scale facility modernization: 11 Foot Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel flexible wall replacement and electro-mechanical positioning system. Inlet guide vane and honeycomb flow control systems. High pressure/flow hydraulic system design. Design and structural analysis of aircraft modification projects. Aircraft and rotorcraft radar/instrumentation housing/fairing design and analysis. Modification of hardware and components of flying observatories such as the NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Biomedical and human habitat research equipment, e.g. the 8-foot centrifuge for hyper-gravity bone cell research and the 52-foot centrifuge human habitat for chronic hyper-gravity studies. Aerospace models for wind tunnel testing. Electro-mechanical hardware modernization, design, selection and integration with mechanical systems. Space flight hardware. Acoustic mapping hardware. X-Y transverse microphone rail system for large acoustic wind tunnel testing. Large facility piping and piping structure analysis and design: Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel facility piping support structure - earthquake and structural analysis and redesign. Project management: Initial cost and schedule estimates, design concept, design and • analysis, fabrication and installation supervision and support, documentation. • Produce detail drawings for fabrication and installation of design projects. Oversee fabrication and installation of design projects.

1994 - 1998

University of San Francisco School of Law

J.D. (1998) | Intellectual Property Law and International Law

Directed Research and Graduate Writing Project: National Sovereignty Issues Regarding European Member States.

1985 - 1990

San Joses State University

B.S. (1990) | Aerospace Engineering

Concentration: Aerodynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Systems Minor: Mathematics

1984 - 1985

San Diego Mesa College

A.A. (1985) | Aviation

Concentration: Flight Operations