Karl Fazio
is Chief Patent Counsel for Pearson, and is responsible for advising Pearson’s global business, technology, and product leadership regarding strategy, policy, protection, enforcement, and process relating to patents, trade secrets, open source compliance, and standards-setting activity. He manages Pearson’s international patent portfolio to ensure effective protection and alignment with business strategy, develops and implements effective open source and trade secret practices, and provides guidance regarding defensive litigation, enforcement, M&A, and licensing matters
IP departments are often forced to spend their limited budget defending patent troll lawsuits targeted at the base computing and service layers instead of where it should …