Zack Higbee is a registered patent attorney practicing all aspects of U.S. and international patent prosecution, review, and IP counseling. Whether retooling and streamlining a mature portfolio or priming a client for rapid growth, Zack works with client principals and team members to identify, harvest, and protect valuable IP with forward-looking, cost-effective strategies. He also designs comprehensive IP portfolio and transactional strategies involving all aspects of IP, including patents, copyrights, open source, trade secrets, and licensing.
Zack helps clients protect their businesses and bring their products to market safely and efficiently by pre-emptively avoid issues with competing IP and laying a solid IP groundwork using patentability and freedom to operate analyses, opinions, and engineering design and strategic portfolio analysis and recommendations.
With a background in mechanical engineering and economics, and practical experience in medical devices, robotics, and software systems engineering, Zack often handles high-stakes, interdisciplinary portfolios that integrate disparate technological fields and legal disciplines for the most technologically and legally holistic approach to IP protection for some of the largest companies in the world.
Zack received his J.D., with honors, from The George Washington University and dual B.S. both in mechanical engineering and in business economics and management from Caltech, where he was also a decathlete and captain of the track and field team.
