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Joby Hughs

JOBY A HUGHES, born Jackson, Mississippi, 1961; admitted to bar, 1989, Texas, admitted to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office, 1992.

Joby successfully served as lead counsel in several large intellectual property cases over the first ten years of his career.   Examples of the technical subject matter of the cases are business and engineering software, hardware, oil and gas tools, chemical plant control systems, analytical methods and a variety of mechanical devices.   He has successfully tried patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret, and commercial litigation arising out of licenses and other technology-related agreements. 

Beginning in 1996, he was the founder and president of Litigation Risk Management, Inc., a company that applied cutting edge proprietary techniques developed by him to successfully analyze intellectual property risk for Lloyd’s of London underwriters.    Joby eventually sold this consulting practice to a major international insurance broker in 2002 and served as a Senior Vice President in charge of Intellectual Asset Management for the company until 2004.

In 2004-2005, Joby was a co-founder of Altitude Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on acquiring interests in intellectual property assets.  After taking part in capital raising and several initial investments, he left ACP in 2006 to focus more on the active management of intellectual property assets and a return to the private practice of law. 

His practice is now centered on activities related to intellectual property transactions and management.  These activities include identifying, structuring deals for, performing and coordinating diligence for, developing monetization strategies for, managing (including managing litigation), and selling intellectual property assets.  

With a national and international practice, his legal and consulting practices have involved clients in over half of the United States, and in several foreign countries. 

Joby is a frequent speaker on topics related to intellectual property risk analysis, diligence, and intellectual property management and litigation. 

Prior to law school, Joby began his professional career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. 

EDUCATION

• Mississippi State University (B.S., Ch.E..,å1983)
• University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 1989)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND ARTICLES   

• "Value Creation and Risk Mitigation in Intellectual Property," KPMG LLP, AH&T Technology Brokers & ipValue Management, Inc., Seattle, Washington, January 24, 2002
• "IP Risk – Protecting Your Business," Travis County Bar Association's Technology & Computer Law Section, Austin, Texas, November 13, 2001
• "Tools and Options for Evaluating Patent Cases," University of Texas at Austin, 6th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute, Austin, Texas, November 2, 2001 (with paper)
• "Role of Risk Management & Risk Transfer Tools in Licensing," Licensing Executives Society 2001 Annual Meeting, Palm Desert, California, October 30, 2001
• "Using Insurance to Leverage IP," Marcus Evans Conferences, Intellectual Property 2001Conference, London, England, October 9, 2001
• "Panel: Online Liability," American Conference Institute, Fifth National Conference for Insurance Professionals, Legal Advisors and Risk Managers, New York City, New York, June 25-26, 2001
• "Intellectual Property Insurance," North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas, Texas, June 1, 2001
• "Panel: Protecting Intellectual Property & Other Tangible Assets," Patent & License Exchange, Inc., Irvine, California, May 16, 2001
• "Intellectual Property Insurance," Dallas Fort Worth Intellectual Property Law Association, Dallas, Texas, April 10, 2001
• "Panel: Securitizing Royalty Streams," Association of University Technology Managers 2001 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 3, 2001
• "Insurance for Patent Infringement," State Bar of Texas 14th Annual Intellectual Property Law Course, Dallas, Texas, March 2, 2001
• "Panel: Intellectual Property: A Hot Zone of Liability Amidst Increasingly Available Insurance Coverage," Professional Liability Underwriting Society International
• Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 9, 2000
• "Panel: Hot Topics in Intellectual Property," An Executive Breakfast for Intellectual Property Attorneys, Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 2000
• "New Developments in Financing Mechanisms for Patent Portfolio Mining, Value Extraction and Securitization," International Patent and Technology Licensing in the 21st Century, London, UK, May 4, 2000
• "Panel: Changing the Focus – Risk in the Year 2000," Minnesota RIMS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 3, 2000
• "Panel: Risk Transfer Issues and The United States Patent and Trademark Office Interference Process," New York Biotechnology Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York, November 8-9, 1999
• "Workshop: Intellectual Property Insurance: A Strategic Tool For Licensing," Licensing Executives Society: Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 23-30, 1999
• "Panel: Litigating Intellectual Property Issues; Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property," Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Inc., 1999 Commercial Litigation Seminar, Fort Worth, Texas, August 27, 1999
• "Panel: Valuing, Insuring and Profiting from Intellectual Property Assets," Practicing Law Institute: Protecting Your Intellectual Property Assets, New York, New York, July 14, 1999

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• State Bar of Texas
• American Intellectual Property Association
• Licensing Executives Association
• Houston Bar Association