Craig L. Cupid brings significant real-world engineering experience to his intellectual property practice. Prior to his legal career, Craig held multiple engineering positions with a leading telecommunications company, including serving as an engineer responsible for escalated implementation matters encompassing the company’s complete portfolio of data products.
Craig focuses his practice on intellectual property procurement, intellectual property strategy, and licensing, with experience representing clients in the areas of energy, high technology, and consumer products.
Craig believes that intellectual property is an asset that every successful company protects. He approaches client matters by first taking time to understand the client’s business strategy and in turn implementing the best supporting intellectual property strategy.
Experience :
- Intellectual property procurement and infringement analysis for a multinational software corporation.
- Analysis and risk assessment of information technology agreements including privacy and data security for multi-billion dollar acquisition.
- Intellectual property procurement, infringement analysis, due diligence analysis and opinions for invalidity and noninfringement for a major telecommunications corporation.
- Supported major litigation for a Fortune 500 company by analyzing products placed on the market by potential infringers.
Memberships :
- Licensing Executives Society
- Foundation Board – Vice President (2016-2018)
- Atlanta Advisory Board (2018)
- Technology Association of Georgia
- 2-time Outstanding Intellectual Property Mentor Award Winner — GSU IPAB (April 2015 and April 2016)
- American Bar Association
- Intellectual Property Law Section
- Business Law Section
- State Bar of Georgia
- Technology Law Section
- Business Law Section
Community :
- Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization
- National Society of Black Engineers Alumni Extension
Education :
- J.D., Georgia State University College of Law, 2009
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
Admissions : U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Registration No. 61,308
Cost
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