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Chris, a member of Lindquist & Vennum’s intellectual property litigation group, assists clients with patent, trademark, and copyright issues. His litigation experience includes participating on a team that successfully defended a copyright action in Texas, and assisting with the response to a patent litigation appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Chris also helps clients with transactional intellectual property issues including due diligence, licensing, assignments, and intellectual property acquisitions.Chris is an experienced professional with a background in computer and information systems. Before joining Lindquist & Vennum, he served as director of information systems for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, a position in which he regularly wrote and spoke nationally about technology issues affecting charitable organizations, particularly relating to databases and Internet applications such as e-commerce. He edited three editions of the Minnesota Nonprofit Directory, a descriptive compilation of thousands of nonprofit organizations in the state. Chris also assisted charities with governance, tax, and legal issues, and taught classes on establishing nonprofit agencies in Minnesota. While he worked at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, he was featured in the book 100 Great Jobs and How to Get Them. In law school, Chris competed in the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the International Trademark Association, and received Excellence for the Future awards for top grades in advocacy, immigration law, and tax practice and procedure classes from CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction a consortium of law schools).Chris participated in Lindquist & Vennum’s summer associates program in 2004. In August 2006, he completed a one-year judicial clerkship for Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.Chris is an active participant in several of the firm’s pro bono initiatives; he currently serves as a volunteer mediator for the Ramsey County Harassment Court mediation pilot program. | 