Dynamic legal leader, strategic business partner and compliance officer with Amlaw 100 and Fortune 100 experience in the life sciences and other highly regulated industries.
▪ Consistently sought for ability to build and cultivate legal and compliance infrastructure and strategic alliances, using award-winning communications skills, exceptional problem-solving abilities and perpetual can-do attitude.
▪ Trusted advisor, motivational leader and team player with superb presentation skills, keen business acumen and unwavering ethics.
▪ Ability to influence individuals at all levels of an organization and beyond.
▪ Frequent lecturer on establishing and effectively managing in-house legal departments; compliance & ethics programs in the life sciences industry, employment & privacy laws and outside counsel management.

Chris is a recovering software engineer practicing intellectual property law. He is currently an Associate General Counsel of IP with Becton, Dickinson and Company, a global medical technologies company. Chris brings a unique perspective to IP law that is informed by his experiences as an R&D contributor, project manager, law firm partner, and in-house counsel. His practice is focused on developing offensive and defensive IP strategies for innovations and advising on intellectual property aspects of commercial transactions such as licensing, corporate development, data rights, and strategic partnerships. 

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Erich Drotleff is a seasoned and business-oriented corporate generalist attorney who excels at gaining the confidence and trust of business partners and executive leadership teams to efficiently achieve business objectives. Strong management and communication skills. Proven ability to deliver practical solutions under pressure in a fast-paced environment. Areas of expertise include telemedicine, digital healthcare, technology, data privacy, compliance, contract negotiation, supply chain, and commercial disputes. He is a California-licensed attorney and New York registered in-house counsel.

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Christopher (Chris) M. King is a senior counsel and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm's Mechanical & Electromechanical Technologies Practice and the Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Solutions Industry Teams.

Chris provides a broad range of intellectual property (IP) services, focusing his work on patent counseling, IP-focused commercial agreements, and IP transaction counseling. As a patent counselor, he helps clients identify and implement the appropriate strategy to protect their innovations; identify and mitigate IP infringement risks by providing freedom to operate and clearance opinions and consulting on design arounds; and develop and implement enforcement strategies against competitors infringing on client patents. Chris regularly prepares and negotiates a wide range of IP-focused commercial agreements, including collaboration, license, joint development, services, and employee confidential information and invention assignment agreements. Chris routinely counsels clients on the IP aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other commercial transactions and prepares and negotiates the IP provisions of the transaction agreements and any ancillary IP agreements. Chris provides detailed insights and risk mitigation recommendations when conducting due diligence on IP ownership, IP disputes and infringement risks, registered IP portfolios, IP-focused agreements, corporate IP strategies and policies, and use of open source software by leveraging his experience from his IP counseling and agreement practices.

Chris is a trusted business advisor to clients in numerous industries, including smart buildings, batteries and energy storage, engines and power generation, outdoor power equipment, electric vehicles, hydrogen generation and distribution, oil and gas, automation, hand tools, consumer products, and food service equipment.

Chris provides pro bono services to Wisconsin inventors and entrepreneurs by volunteering at IP brief advice clinics through a virtual clinic that Chris helped LegalCORPS establish in Wisconsin and providing full patent application and drafting representation to low income inventors.

Prior to entering law school, Chris was a manufacturing engineer with General Motors, where he supervised a department of skilled tradespersons.