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Stu Kaler, resident in the firm’s San Jose office, has over seventeen years of experience across the all aspects of Intellectual Property areas, from trade secret protection to patents, copyright and trademarks. Mr. Kaler is experienced in counseling, as well as prosecution, licensing, and litigation.
Mr. Kaler was the General Counsel of ClairVoyante, Inc. – a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up in the display industry. Mr. Kaler built ClairVoyante’s patent portfolio to over 500 patents worldwide and developed and implemented strategy to license both chip makers and panel makers to supply ClairVoyante’s display modules to the industry. Mr. Kaler has drafted and successfully negotiated over 20 technology evaluation agreement and several commercial license agreements on behalf of ClairVoyante.
Prior to ClairVoyante, Mr. Kaler has counseled both small start-ups to large multinational corporations from his positions as in-house counsel at Xerox PARC and Siemens and as associate counsel in the law firms of Morrison & Foerster and Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert. Mr. Kaler has extensive litigation experience with many clients and issues, including the novel defense of the Estate of Crazy Horse in both tribal court and federal courts against the Hornell Brewing Company.
Prior to law school, Mr. Kaler was a computer scientist with Honeywell Systems and Research Center and an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launch officer with the United States Air Force stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.
Mr. Kaler is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California, the United States Supreme Court, and the Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, and the Eighth Circuit, as well as to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Email: skaler@macpherson-kwok.com
Professional Affiliations
- State Bar of California
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Education
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, B.S., Math/Physics
- University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, M.S, Math/Computer Science
- University of Minnesota School of Law, J.D.; cum laude
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