KARRIN L. KLOTZ
11342 N.E. 67th Street
Kirkland, WA. 98033
(425. 828.9680)
(Fax: 425.828.6208)
SUMMARY:
Substantial in-house counsel experience in software licensing, biotech licensing, international law, intellectual property, business contracts, and technical support areas; major private law firm practice in complex business litigation, and advice to employers, specializing in intellectual property matters, business law, contracts, antitrust, employment and tort law. Professor at major universities, specializing in intellectual property, technology licensing, international law, and general commercial law issues, as well as negotiations topics.
WORK
EXPERIENCE:
I. Current: Engaged in a combination of private practice specializing in the legal issues facing the entrepreneur and teaching. Teaching experience is as follows:
A. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
1998-present Seattle, Washington
Lecturer, UW Seattle Schools of Business Administration, teaching classes in intellectual property (including biotech issues), international business, e-commerce, commercial, immigration, contracts and tort law, at MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA and Technical Managers MBA levels, as well as the Executive Program. Includes a joint MBA class listed by the regular MBA program and the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship. Also teaching undergraduate classes in Introductory Business Law and Negotiations, including commercial law courses. In addition, I have taught a class titled “Legal and Ethical Issues for the New Technologies” in the UW Bothell MBA program.
· "Managing Intellectual Property" class topics include copyright, trademark, trade secret and patent law issues, including biotech issues, at both the domestic and international level, as well as recent electronic contract, UCC and Internet-specific issues. Includes study of licensing provisions based on those concerns, and negotiating issues.
· "Introduction to Law" and "Commercial Law" classes include brief presentations on the above topics, as well as general legal business-related issues such as jurisdictions of courts, organization of state and federal courts, constitutional law, law of business entities, trusts and estates, bankruptcy law, securities law, tort law, employment law, ADR issues, evidentiary issues, and general civil and criminal procedure issues.
· “Legal and Ethical Issues in the New Technologies” class addresses ethical and legal issues that arise from the initial phase of a new venture to its potential end. Topics include forms of business organization, securities law issues, intellectual property issues, contracts, torts, employment law, antitrust issues, international and e-commerce law, and bankruptcy issues.
B. SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF LAW
1999-present Seattle, Washington
Lecturer, Seattle University Law School, teaching clinical courses in technology licensing (including biotech licensing issues) and intellectual property audits. Have also taught an international business law course. Taught a CLE (Continuing Legal Education) class on Intellectual Property Valuations sponsored by the Law School.
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· Teaching law students how to draft various forms of technology-related agreements and other documents, and how to do intellectual property audits. Includes negotiating practice sessions.
· Have taught an international business law course, which addressed such topics as investing in foreign businesses, selling directly and through distribution channels abroad, export and import
restrictions, establishing a branch abroad, international intellectual property issues, repatriations and expropriations, local law restrictions, and international financing instruments.
· Presentation at CLE Conference on “Intellectual Property Audit & Valuation: What Do You Have & What is it Worth?”
· Presentation at Seattle University Business School seminar on Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs, on intellectual property issues for startups.
II. Past Experience: Corporate In-House:
A. WALL DATA INC.
1997-1998 Kirkland, Washington
Associate General Counsel.
· Responsible for international, intellectual property, employment and commercial legal matters, including bankruptcy issues. Instituted ongoing employee education training programs on these issues.
· Initiated export compliance program for encrypted product exports.
B. MICROSOFT CORPORATION
1994 - 1997 Redmond, Washington
Corporate Attorney, for Enterprise Customer Unit, U.S. Field Operations, Education Customer Unit and Microsoft Technical Support.
· Coordinated move of MS technical support forums from CompuServe® to the Internet; provided on-going advice concerning online issues with respect to MSN and http://www.Microsoft.com for clients.
· Presentations on legal issues at MS101 classes, and before Law and Corporate Affairs.
· Ongoing training of employees in all above divisions.
· Attended Global Summits, Worldwide Sales Meeting(s) and other company-wide sales meetings.
· Prepared and negotiated software licensing, beta test, evaluation and development agreements.
· Prepared and negotiated worldwide sales, support and partner agreements, including Premier Global, MCS/PSS Integrated Services Agreement, VanStar, Entex and Ernst &Young agreements.
· Coordinated support partners program for Windows® 95 launch.
· Responsible for coordinating settlement of services portion of major patent litigation matter after 3 months on the job.
· Coordinated establishment of Novell®/Microsoft technical support strategic alliance.
· Developed North American anti-piracy program for Education Customer Unit.
· Coordinated closure of Tucson, Arizona support escalation center.
· Awards for Web Response Project; Premier Global Program; MVP Program.
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C. AMDAHL CORPORATION
1992 - 1994 Sunnyvale, California
Corporate Counsel, for all UNIX®-related and other software development matters, including Amdahl’s UTS® operating system. Counsel for hardware matters. Secondary emphasis on environmental and employment matters.
· Prepared and negotiated software portions of Amdahl/Sun Microsystems® and Amdahl/Fujitsu/ICL strategic alliance agreements, making it possible for Amdahl to move quickly in a new direction of emphasis, from hardware to software. Award for work on Amdahl/Sun agreements.
· Drafted, reviewed and negotiated domestic and international technology licensing (including source code licensing), OEM, development, and distribution agreements related to open systems and communications products.
· Renegotiated major international contract, saving Amdahl $1 million and resulting in a more favorable contract.
· Successfully resolved intellectual property, employment and other disputes before they escalated into litigation.
· Analyzed international intellectual property laws and advised on risks of sending product into particular countries.
· Reviewed/authorized publication of software marketing materials and press releases worldwide; performed trademark searches and advised on use of proposed product names.
· Management of outside counsel and pretrial resolution of intellectual property infringement and other issues.
D. APPLE® COMPUTER; AIR TOUCH® COMMUNICATIONS
Various Cupertino/San Francisco, California
Drafted and negotiated nondisclosure, software licensing and telecommunications agreements, including database and operating system licensing agreements. International practice.
III. Past Experience: Private Practice
A. PILLSBURY, MADISON & SUTRO; DONAHUE, GALLAGHER, THOMAS & WOODS
1987 - 1992 San Francisco/Oakland, California
Associate Attorney specializing in complex business litigation and advice to employers on antitrust, products liability, employment, environmental and construction matters. Substantial appellate practice.
· Prepared the pleadings that won Autodesk® its first search-and-seizure order in California federal courts.
· Prepared letter to head of Software Publishers Association which generated legislation making copying of software a felony.
· Produced the form complaint utilized by anti-piracy programs patterned on Autodesk’s program.
· Associate attorney on major products liability lawsuit involving court reporter system, including software, for Convergent Technologies®.
· Prepared research memorandum for successful summary judgment motion on antitrust issues for Haagen-Dazs.
· Worked with senior partner to settle BART/Westinghouse construction dispute favorably to client, thereby saving BART substantial projected litigation costs.
· Prepared dispositive motions and arbitration briefs on employment law matters, which resulted in the awarding of judgment to the employer without the necessity of trial.
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B. U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
1986-1987 Houston, Texas
Judicial Clerk for the Hon. Gabrielle K. McDonald. Responsibilities included intellectual property, international law, admiralty law, and employment matters.
· Prepared drafts of judicial opinions and orders; researched evidentiary questions which formed the basis for judicial decisions.
· All opinions that I prepared were affirmed on appeal.
C. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Appellate Court Branch
1984 Washington, D.C.
Law Clerk for the Appellate Court Branch. Prepared briefs on behalf of NLRB to Courts of Appeal. Initiated and negotiated settlements.
· Won an appeal which became a seminal case on the issue of unions’ right to information.
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
A. UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
1989 - Present San Jose, California and Seattle, Washington
Faculty Member, teaching all aspects of business law, business ethics and critical thinking to undergraduate and graduate students in the Business Administration program. Ace Instructor Award, 1993.
B. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, LAW SCHOOL
1985-1986 Madison, Wisconsin
Legal Writing Instructor, teaching all aspects of analytical legal writing, including at the appellate level.
EDUCATION:
A. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, LAW SCHOOL
JD, 1986. Leon Feingold Memorial Award. Robert P. Wagner National Moot Court Team. President, Nathan P. Feinsinger Labor Law Society. University of Wisconsin Representative, Labor Law Section, Wisconsin State Bar Association.
B. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
BA, Political Science. Phi Beta Kappa. Mortar Board (senior women’s honors society). Prytaneans (junior women’s honors society). United States Congressional Intern for Representative William S. Mailliard, Sr.
C. MILLS COLLEGE.
Oakland, CA. Majored in Government. Honors Student.
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
· Member – Washington, California and District of Columbia Bar Associations.
· Past Member of. Committees on Litigation, Government. Contracts, and Federal Practice - California State Bar Association.
· Member - U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Eastern Districts of California, and the Western District of Washington.
· Appointed to the Public Relations and Media Committee of the Washington State Bar Association, by the Board of Governors.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
· Presentations before international groups under the auspices of the International Visitors Program, a program cosponsored by the World Affairs Council and the U.S. Department of State, on international e-commerce and intellectual property issues - October 1999 to present.
· Presentation before the Deputy Minister of Commerce for Paraguay on intellectual property and e-commerce legal issues - July 2000.
· Presentation and publication of paper on "Intellectual Property Issues Pertinent to Developing Technology" for Society of Technical Communicators - October 1999.
· Asbestos, Creosote, PCB's, Plastics in Firefighting, co-authored with the Safety Director of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, 1980.
· Presentation on employment law issues before the San Francisco Business Women’s Leadership Association, 1991.
COMMUNITY WORK:
· Past President and Past Chairman of Activities Committee; current Chairman of High School Outreach Program. Member, Board of Trustees - Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa, 1994 to present.
· Founding Member - Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (Seattle Branch).
· Mentor- Seattle Girls School.
· Speakers Bureau - Sen. Patty Murray Campaign.
· First District Appellate Project – prepared appellate briefs for incarcerated persons.
· Member, Board of Directors – Northwest Entrepreneur Network
· Alameda County Coordinator and Southern California Coordinator for Proposition 15, a statewide Initiative drive with the purpose of preserving the Stanislaus River.
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
Hiking, Rock-Climbing, cross-country skiing, and whitewater rafting (former whitewater river guide). Reading legal thrillers.
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