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Practice Areas
Education
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Science; University of Tennessee, 1993; with honors
- J.D., University of Tennessee, 1997; cum laude
Bar & Court Admissions
- North Carolina, 1997
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1998
W. Kevin Ransom
A trained electrical engineer with corporate systems-engineering experience and a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics. Kevin Ransom brings both technical expertise and legal know-how to his widely varying intellectual property clients, for both domestic and foreign IP portfolios.
The sophisticated services he provides his clients include:
- Obtaining patent protection in the U.S. and foreign patent offices.
- Infringement and invalidity investigations, conducting due diligence investigations related to corporate transactions.
- Preparing and negotiating license and joint-development agreements.
- Negotiating intellectual-property-related assets purchases.
- Licensing and purchasing intellectual property.
He also helps clients develop strategies to effectively manage their intellectual property, including risk management of third-party intellectual property rights, consulting on a wide range of transactions with intellectual property components.
Mr. Ransom works with clients in diverse areas of technology, including:
- Electronics
- Computer software/firmware
- Distributed networks
- Telephony
- Communications protocols
- Power-management systems
- Semiconductor manufacture
- Flight navigation
- Laser technology
- Printing technology
- Database management
He has also pursued numerous software and business-method inventions, such as on-line search engines, inventory and logistic systems, database management, web-crawling, online education delivery systems, web-based interfaces, online ticketing, financial instruments, insurance products, banking transactions, and more.
Of Note
- Frequent speaker on intellectual property topics to business organizations and legal groups, including educational presentations to clients' employees
- Served as Executive Editor of the Tennessee Law Review
- Previously systems engineer, Analysis Measurement Services and Honeywell Corporation
- Licensed to practice in the State of North Carolina and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Included in Business North Carolina's Legal Elite list, 2008, 2010-2012
- Selected for inclusion to the 2009 North Carolina Rising Stars list, which is included in the North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine.