Wood, Kyle

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Kyle Wood focuses his practice on intellectual property law and technology. Kyle's experience includes drafting and negotiating technology development, licensing, worldwide distribution, and other technology-related agreements. Kyle regularly counsels clients on matters involving intellectual property issues that arise in the context of general corporate transactions, including public and private financings and mergers and acquisitions.

Before law school, Kyle worked as a financial analyst for Sprint Communications and as a director of business development at a small Internet start-up in Virginia. Prior to joining Jones Day, Kyle worked as counsel at Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sun Microsystems.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Licensing & Technology Transactions

Representative Cases

• Marlin Equity Partners acquires business units from Requisite Technology , (2009)
• MeziMedia acquired by ValueClick for $352 million
• Resilience Capital merges portfolio company with Durakon Industries , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company acquires capital stock of The Horn Book , (2009)
• Riverside portfolio company completes sale of Darby Creek Publishing assets
• SAP AG acquires Clear Standards
• SAP Ag acquires the Israeli SAP sales and distribution division of Ness Technologies
• Total invests in Gevo
• Universal Electronics and Maxim purchase Zilog universal remote control and secure transaction businesses , (2009)
• Virage Logic acquires ARC

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Patents, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Santa Clara University
• U of Virginia- C'ville (Main)

Address

1755 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303

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1.650.687.4126 (Business Phone)

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1.650.739.3900 (Business Fax)

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