The firm works with a virtual team of legal, business, and technical experts to provide you with high value legal services while cutting unnecessary cost and overhead and passing on the savings to you. The principal and founder, Soody, is a seasoned
professional with over 20 years of experience combining law, science,
engineering,
and business management in start-ups and established environments.
Soody practiced law as IP Counsel at Silicon Valley offices of prominent
national law firms and in-house at the Hewlett-Packard Company. Soody
was
General Counsel and Vice President of Intellectual Property at a
successfully
acquired
medical device start up company where she was responsible for all legal
matters including clinical trials, corporate transactions (e.g.,
acquisition, merger), licensing and partnering transactions, employment
issues;
and played a key role in the development of strategies for dispute
resolution
and litigation.
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Before starting her legal career, she spent
several years in the industry holding technical and management positions
at companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Schering-Plough.
Her extensive experience enables the patent and transactional counseling
of
clients in the areas of life sciences, medical devices, and high
technology.
Based on the range of her experience and founder of two companies, she
is well
accustomed to challenges facing emerging as well as mature companies.
Soody serves in Of Counsel capacity with other firms and consults with several companies. She is on
the advisory board of several organizations including, the Silicon Valley
Chapter
of the Licensing Executive Society (LES) and the Association for the Sports
and
Athlete Professionals. She
instructs courses in IP and
licensing at the University of California. She serves as a mentor at the
Stanford Technology Venture Formation Program, is an advisor with Astia,
and volunteers her services at local non-profit
organizations. She is also an inventor on patent applications and issued patents.
Soody holds a J.D. and M.S.; and is licensed to practice before the
State of
California and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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