Soody is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience combining law, science, engineering, and business management in start-ups and established environments. Prior to starting STLGIP, Soody practiced law as IP Counsel at Silicon Valley offices of Heller Ehrman as well as Townsend and Townsend and in-house at the Hewlett-Packard Company. She 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.
Prior to starting her legal career, Soody spent several years in the industry holding technical and management positions at companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Schering-Plough Corporation. Her extensive and diverse experience enables the patent and transactional counseling of clients in the diverse areas including life sciences, software and business methods, medical devices and diagnostics, and high technology. Based on the range of her experience and having founded several companies of her own, she is well accustomed to challenges facing emerging as well as mature companies.
Soody consults with other firms and companies and takes great pleasure in being actively involved in educational and non-profit organizations some of which include being on the Co-Chair at the Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley Chapter (LES-SVC); and the Association for the Sports and Athlete Professionals.
Soody instructs courses in IP and licensing at the University of California. She serves as a mentor with several entrepreneurship-focused courses/programs at Stanford University, is a mentor with LES Graduate School Business Plan Competition, is an advisor with Astia and the C4Cube Venture Accelerator (C4Cube), is a speaker at legal forums and domestic and international events, and volunteers and donates 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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