Kevin Christopher

Kevin Christopher

Kevin Christopher
Founder | Patent Attorney | Business Leader
Experience: 7 years
Intellectual Property, Business Law, Trademarks and 5 others
District of Columbia, Patent and Trademark Office and Tennessee
Class of 2020, Mid-South Rising Star and 5 others
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Kevin Christopher is the founder and principal of Rockridge Venture Law®, Tennessee’s only B Corp Best For The World law firm. Kevin is a registered patent attorney, entrepreneur, county and state commissioner, National Institutes of Health (NIH) RadX faculty member, and National Science Foundation (NSF) program evaluator. He is a Leadership Lawyer and Leadership Tennessee alumnus, and board member to several environmental and social impact nonprofits. Kevin has been recognized as a SuperLawyer by Thomson Reuters and Top Business Leader by Conscious Company Magazine.

Attorney Kevin Christopher is a corporate attorney, patent attorney, and trademark attorney. Specifically, his practice areas include: patent and trademark prosecution, licensing and litigation; corporate law, with an emphasis on benefit corporations, socially responsible businesses and high-growth emergent companies; government contracts, with an emphasis on innovation funding; corporate and investor financing; and, technology commercialization. In addition to his corporate practice Kevin helps many entrepreneurs as program advisor with AgLaunch, Bethesda Green Hub, CoLab, Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and Singularity University Ventures.

Prior to founding RVL®, Attorney Kevin Christopher led bioscience and biotech development activities with top secret security clearance at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. His copyright and patent licensing portfolio included anti-infectives, drug delivery systems, neural interface devices, sequencing software, and other state of the art technologies. Kevin’s commercialization of a microbiome analysis chip resulted in in a Federal Licensing Consortium deal of the year award. Kevin managed a 40+ patent neural interface portfolio that was licensed as the groundbreaking Argus II artificial retina, and additionally directed to multi-region neuron mapping and as a tool for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar
Since 2017

Patent and Trademark Office

Since 2016

Tennessee

Since 2016

Professional Experience

2016 - Current

Rockridge Venture Law

Principal

Rockridge Venture Law® was launched in 2017 to become the preeminent intellectual property and technology firm across the Appalachian Innovation Corridor. We now have offices in Chattanooga, Durham, and Nashville, and represent clients and interests globally. Our services include all aspects of intellectual property, litigation, M&A, privacy, technology transactions, and ventures. In 2018 and 2019, we were recognized as B Corp Best for the World for our commitment to triple bottom line business practices. Our pioneering environmental and social impact programs attract top-notch legal talent and assure our clients of missional alignment with their corporate values. Rockridge uniquely addresses two modern profit drivers: innovation (uptake and development), and corporate social responsibility. We're Building Today's Company for Tomorrow's Economy® by leading clients through the dizzying array of information controls, by helping them to develop and monetize proprietary assets, and by enabling their impactful products, programs, and principles.

2014 - 2016

Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Industrial Partnerships Office

Led business development and strategic partnership activities within Industrial Partnerships Office for bioscience and biotech programs involving big data, biosecurity, drug discovery, human-on-a-chip, microbiome, microfluidics, neural interface, synthetic biology, and other specialized research and development. Created master agreements and organizational plans for life science consortia. Crafted and optimized commercialization strategies for over 400 technologies including: microelectrode array for neural recording and stimulation; nanolipoproteins for vaccine development and drug delivery; pharmaceuticals, including biologics and small molecules; and diagnostics. Negotiated license agreements, establishing valuation metrics based upon commercialization plans, comparables, market data, and intellectual property attributes. Established, negotiated, and finalized cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), inter-institutional agreements (IIAs), inter-agency agreements (IAAs), and intellectual property management plans.

2011 - 2014

University of California, Berkeley

Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances

2009 - 2009

Chambers of Judge Charles R. Breyer

Judicial Extern

2009 - 2009

U.S. Attorney's Office, Civil Division, San Francisco

Law Clerk

Education

2014 - 2015

University of California - Davis

other | Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group

2012 - 2013

University of California - Berkeley

other | Energy, Law

Activities: Tutor, Governor Jennifer Granholm, Renewable Energy Law & Policy; Computer Law, Berkeley School of Law; Research Member, Berkeley Rural Energy Group / Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab

2007 - 2010

University of San Francisco School of Law

J.D. (2010)

Honors: Arthur Zief, Jr., Scholar

2010 - 2010

University of California Hastings College of the Law

Visiting Student

Honors: Outstanding Scholarship Award, Law and Bioscience (LAB) Project

2005

Lipscomb University

Honors: Presenter, Tennessee Honors Conference, "Technology and God: Effects of Invention upon Spiritual Communication."

Awards

year - Kevin Christopher
Class of 2020

Leadership Tennessee

Mid-South Rising Star

Super Lawyers

Business Leader of the Year

Conscious Company Magazine

year - Kevin Christopher
Attorney for Justice

Tennessee Bar Association

Pro Bono Certificate

Patent and Trademark Office

year - Kevin Christopher
Leadership Lawyer

Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law

year - Kevin Christopher
Outstanding Scholar

UC Hastings School of Law

Contacts

Rockridge Venture Law 41 Peabody St. Nashville TN 37210 Toll-Free: (629) 401-4200
Rockridge Venture Law 200 W. M.L.K. STE 1000 Chattanooga TN 37402 Telephone: (423) 800-8855
Rockridge Venture Law 116 Locust St. STE E Cookeville TN 38501 Telephone: (931) 650-4055

Videos

Building Today's Company for Tomorrow's Economy
Rockridge Venture Law® was launched in 2017 to become the preeminent intellectual property and technology firm across the Appalachian Innovation Corridor. We now have offices in Chattanooga, Durham, and Nashville, and represent clients and interests globally. Our services include all aspects of intellectual property, litigation, M&A, privacy, technology transactions, and ventures.

In 2018 and 2019, we were recognized as B Corp Best for the World for our commitment to triple bottom line business practices. Our pioneering environmental and social impact programs attract top-notch legal talent and assure our clients of missional alignment with their corporate values.

Rockridge uniquely addresses two modern profit drivers: innovation (uptake and development), and corporate social responsibility. We're Building Today's Company for Tomorrow's Economy® by leading clients through the dizzying array of information controls, by helping them to develop and monetize proprietary assets, and by enabling their impactful products, programs, and principles. Learn more at rockridgelaw.com.
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Kevin Christopher
Kevin Christopher Founder | Patent Attorney | Business Leader

Experience: 7 years
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Practice Areas

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Trademarks

Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration

Patents

Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution

Communications & Internet Law

Internet Law, Media & Advertising, Telecommunications Law

Gov & Administrative Law

Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs

Appeals & Appellate

Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

Certifications

Certified Licensing Professional

Licensing Executive Society

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