Karl F. Kenna

Partner
email: kfk@fdml.com

Overview

Mr. Kenna represents clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and in other aspects of intellectual property such as trademark, copyright, and entertainment law.  Mr. Kenna assists clients in developing intellectual property portfolios based on an understanding of the client's technology and business goals. His area of technical expertise includes computer architectures, software, programming languages, telecommunications, Internet and Web-based software, business methods, digital circuit simulation, optical and mechanical devices, applied materials, and chemical processes.  Mr. Kenna also has experience in litigation, opinion work, and portfolio analysis for use in licensing, mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining the firm as Director of Information Systems, and subsequently as an associate, Mr. Kenna was employed as a Network Administrator with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (New York).  Mr. Kenna has also worked as a Research Assistant in Computational Physics at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and as a Lecturer in Physics with the Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).

Education

Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, B.S. Physics and Chemistry 1990
University of Dublin at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Graduate Diploma Computer Simulation 1992
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, M.S. Computer Science 1994
University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D. 2004

Admissions and Memberships

State Bar of California
United States Patent and Trademark Office

San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association
National Association of Patent Practitioners
American Chemical Society
National Association for the Advancement of Science
Association of Computing Machinery