Zack Higbee focuses his practice on all aspects of ex parte U.S. and international patent prosecution, review, and IP counseling, as well as advising on IP licensing and transactional matters, copyright, open source, and trade secret issues where appropriate for his clients’ business goals. He works with client principals and team members to identify, harvest, and protect valuable IP. Zack also regularly conducts patentability, freedom to operate analyses, prepares opinions, and provides engineering design recommendations that help pre-emptively avoid costs and expenses associated with competing IP.
With an academic background in mechanical engineering and economics, and practical experience in medical device research, robot design, and software systems engineering, Zack often handles interdisciplinary cases that integrate disparate technological fields and legal disciplines for the most technologically holistic approach to IP protection.
Leveraging his background in business, Zack also understands his clients’ products and business goals, and helps structure and optimize the value of their portfolios, including identifying and acquiring IP to fill holes in client portfolios.
Zack received his J.D., with honors, from The George Washington University, where he was a member of the AIPLA Quarterly Journal. Before pursuing a career in law, Zack earned a 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.
