Christopher J Forstner

Career

Chris Forstner is an intellectual property and technology strategist that clients trust to develop straightforward and practical strategies for intellectual property protection, transactions, risk management and disputes. Chris helps companies of all sizes develop, maintain, and protect their businesses through the strategic use of IP. As a former Chief IP counsel for Capital One, he sees his clients’ issues through the in-house lens and knows how legal strategy can be used to achieve their business objectives. Chris brings over 20 years of experience as a registered patent attorney in all aspects of IP, including counseling, patent litigation, and prosecution. Chris drafts and negotiates technology and IP agreements (licenses, data, joint development, joint venture, SaaS and sales), and helps analyze and mitigate risk related to IP (opinions on infringement, validity, and transactional diligence to validate IP value in deals). Chris regularly advises clients in the financial services, fintech, manufacturing, software, big data, electric vehicle, manufacturing, and renewable fields. Whether it is securing patents on a client’s most valuable products, navigating a complex licensing transaction, or going to battle in litigation to protect the client’s products, he develops 360-degree strategies for IP protection, exploitation and defense.