Wood IP

Stanton brings to Wood IP substantial experience across a wide variety of general legal and intellectual property (IP) matters, including patent and trademark application preparation and prosecution; patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation; and transactional work, including the negotiation and drafting of development, manufacturing, and confidentiality agreements. He has frequently rendered opinions of counsel, conducted freedom-to-operate (FTO) analyses, performed product clearance studies, provided numerous product clearance opinions, and performed IP due diligence for corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Stanton has significant experience in practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), particularly with arts involving artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), software, semiconductors, circuits, wireless communications, and medical devices, among others.  During his nearly 40-year IP career, Stanton has served as: Senior Patent Counsel to Qualcomm Inc.; Chief IP Counsel to Infineon Technologies North America Corp.; IP Counsel to Siemens Corp.; Senior Patent Counsel and Manager of U.S. Patent Operations for Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Division Patent Counsel to Texas Instruments Inc.

Stanton is a Registered Professional Engineer (Texas) and a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP).  His practice is limited to patent and trademark matters before the USPTO.