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 clients 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 preemptively avoiding issues with competing IP and laying solid groundwork using patentability and freedom to operate analyses, opinions, and engineering design and strategic portfolio analysis and recommendations.
With a background in engineering and economics, and practical experience in software systems engineering, medical devices, and robotics, Zack 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. A noted author on emerging patent legal issues, including AI-enabled inventions, Zack keeps clients’ portfolios best positioned for long-term success.
Zack received his J.D., with honors, from The George Washington University, and dual B.S. in mechanical engineering and business economics and management from Caltech, where he was also a decathlete and captain of the track and field team.
