Terry Stalford is a Principal in the Dallas office of Fish & Richardson P.C. His practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law, with particular emphasis on patent litigation, infringement risk management, patent procurement, and licensing in the software, electronics, communications, and energy fields.

Mr. Stalford works with clients to establish and manage comprehensive intellectual property programs that add capital value to clients and protect its products and markets. Mr. Stalford provides patent procurement counsel to clients developing innovative wireless communication, telecommunication, RFID, network, optical, software, cloud computing and multi-tenant environment, semiconductor, mechanical device, oil and gas, and other technologies. For example, the Patent Scorecard published by the Wall Street Journal ranked a patent portfolio that Mr. Stalford built with a small client as one of the strongest in the energy and environmental industry.

Mr. Stalford has extensive experience in domestic and international licensing transactions. He also provides general intellectual property counseling on other strategic intellectual property issues including risk assessment, patent opinions, patent mapping, patent categorization, and industry benchmarking.