With a strong foundation in intellectual property law and a practice centered on complex licensing agreements, Kris helps clients protect, commercialize, and leverage IP to enhance their businesses.
Kris represents clients in the healthcare, life sciences, education, retail, financial, and other industries in a wide range of complex technology and intellectual property licensing matters. She devotes a significant portion of her practice to IT services, software as a service (SaaS) and software licensing, and other technology agreements, particularly for large health systems and hospitals, universities, and academic medical centers.
In many cases, she will oversee a client’s entire trademark portfolio, handle all of their technology agreements, draft and review IT contracts and IP policies, and oversee all IT contract workflow, including work with internal AI systems.
In addition to negotiating patent and technology licensing matters for universities, she has represented many institutions in contentious negotiations involving their intellectual property policies. Kris also assists clients with sophisticated patent licensing and research agreements, representing both patent holders and entities working to commercialize patents.
Before she went to law school, Kris worked for several years as a high school chemistry and mathematics teacher. Her background in education not only gives her a keen perspective on the challenges faced by universities and academic medical centers, but also gives her a broader ability to interact with clients in a manner that helps them understand complex intellectual property and licensing concepts. As a bonus, her second job as a real estate agent during her teaching career gave Kris a unique view on what it takes to get deals closed.