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Kevin D. DeBré

Kevin advises companies engaged in building businesses based upon technology or intellectual property assets. He has particular expertise in structuring and negotiating intellectual property-driven deals.  A business lawyer, a registered patent lawyer and a former engineer, Kevin handles a wide range of transactions from complex technology transfer arrangements and strategic alliances to licensing and merchandising agreements.  His clients include software companies, mobile commerce technology providers, electronics and hardware manufacturers, content publishers and Internet businesses.

Kevin has been quoted in numerous high-tech industry publications and has appeared on Bloomberg TV.  He is frequently a speaker at conferences on technology commercialization and intellectual property licensing and he has published several articles on IP licensing.  Kevin is the author of “Licensing of Trade Secrets and Know-How,” a chapter of Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California, an attorney’s practice book published by the State Bar of California.  In addition, Kevin is a contributing author of “Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances,” a chapter of Intellectual Property in Business Transactions, an attorney’s practice book published by Continuing Education of the Bar, and is an update author of “Exploiting Trade Secrets by Licensing” and of “Form Licensing Agreements and Provisions,” two chapters of Trade Secrets Practice in California (Second Edition) published by Continuing Education of the Bar.

Kevin was selected in 2009, 2008 and 2006 as a Southern California Super Lawyer and is the founder and Chair of the Licensing Committee of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Section.

Prior to joining Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP as partner and group chair person of the Intellectual Property Practice Group, Kevin was a partner in leading international law firms, including Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, LLP, where he headed the firm’s technology transactions practice in Southern California.   After law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for Hon. John G. Davies, United States District Court for the Central District of California.  Kevin received his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law and his B.S. degree from the University of California, Davis.

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