Mark Kirkland is a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of Fish & Richardson. Mr. Kirkland provides counseling to start ups and going concerns regarding asset identification, strategic prosecution and impacts of the America Invents Act of 2011. Mr. Kirkland specializes in providing IP guidance for entities seeking to revamp or energize existing programs along with practical tools for developing assets that will provide leverage for the entity.

Mr. Kirkland’s practice emphasizes strategic prosecution counseling with special expertise in Internet-related technologies, computer software, communications, and electronics. Internet and software experience includes e-commerce applications, operating systems, enterprise software systems, middle ware, computer graphics, CAD, electronic imaging, user-interfaces, electronic messaging, methods of doing business, digital rights protection, database technology and computer networking.

Mr. Kirkland’s prior experience includes three years as a law clerk and as an associate of Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert, and nine years with Lockheed Missile and Space Co. as an electrical design engineer.