Pat Santos combines deep technical expertise with over 15 years of legal experience to turn complex technology into strategic business value.
Pat Santos is a technology attorney that specializes in building business value on around advanced and complex technology. Whether you are a large public company developing a negotiating position around technology, or a startup seeking to build a business around innovation, Pat brings over 15 years of experience in harvesting intellectual property, articulating value propositions, and executing legal strategies to build business value.
Survey a technological area on demand and develop a legal positions to inform business strategy.
Led a team to review the recent White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence and advised a national standards organization on their position.
Review a company's technical roadmap and interview key technologies to identify and articulate key IP assets for procurement.
As a seconded attorney for a public telecommunications company, developed technology map to inform patent strategy, and performed technical assistance during patent harvesting.
Interpret technical positions of adverse public companies and identify technical issues for the parties to address during negotiation and drafting of contracts.
For a large public company, reviewed vendor service agreements for technical completeness and advised on negotiating positions.
Provide comprehensive counsel for tech startups, covering business entity formation, employment and contractor agreements, vendor and customer contracts, and fundraising.
Presently providing a range of general counsel services to several technology centric startups.
Large technology companies that need a very technical attorney for intellectual property, technology centric transactions, or technology centric legal and business strategy.
Companies of all sizes that need a business and data driven approach for invention harvesting and IP portfolio development.
Startups struggling to find a startup attorney conversant in their technology.
Large technology companies seeking an attorney with a broad set of skills in technology law including technology licensing, product/service intellectual property clearance, IP centric transactions, open source licensing, university tech transfer, standards setting organizations, and international IP.
