email: mick@invent.net
Mr. Kerr has been practicing intellectual property law since 1996. He is a registered patent attorney experienced in protecting the intellectual property assets of companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to early-stage companies. Currently, Mr. Kerr's practice focuses on the preparation of patent applications related to wireless technologies, packaging systems, gaming, cleantech, process engineering, systems engineering, semiconductor fabrication, and software inventions.
Before founding Kerr IP Group (formerly Virtual Legal), Mr. Kerr was the Director of Intellectual Property for a broadband networking company in Southern California. He also worked as an Associate for a boutique patent law firm. He also previously co-founded an intellectual property law firm. Mr. Kerr's legal experience includes conducting IP due diligence audits, drafting and prosecuting patent applications, managing licensing negotiations, developing trade secret protection programs, litigating licensing disputes, and preparing opinion letters.
Before law school, Mr. Kerr worked as an Engineer for consulting engineering firms. He performed feasibility studies for water utility companies, conducted and managed bench scale testing, coordinated laboratory operations, and performed data analysis. His graduate and undergraduate research included analyzing lead oxidation associated with incinerated municipal refuse (MS Thesis), sensor design, developing a nebulizing system for a plasma spectrophotometer, and researching organic lactones and organometallic compounds.
Mr. Kerr was born in Ecuador in 1965, and spent his formative years in Latin
America and the Middle East. He received his A.B. in Chemistry from Occidental
College in 1987. He completed his M.S. at Purdue University in 1989. He received
his J.D. as an evening student at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School
of Law in 1996. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1996 and became a licensed
California Professional Engineer (Civil) in 1996. Mr. Kerr was admitted to the
U.S. Patent Bar in 1998. Mr. Kerr is fluent in Spanish and has limited fluency
in Arabic and French.