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Andrew I. Kimmel

Andrew I. Kimmel

Partner
Orange County
andrew.kimmel@knobbe.com
949-760-0404
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Overview

A highly analytical, multi-dimensional patent law strategist, Andrew Kimmel advises his clients regarding the challenges they face when owning, managing and developing critical IP assets. Andrew’s clients include middle market and fast growth companies that range from major household-name business to entrepreneurs and merging companies. While developing comprehensive patent and patent family strategies, Andrew utilizes his proven skills obtaining patent rights, analyzing risk, negotiating licenses and conducting due diligence investigations

Well-versed in a variety of industries and technologies, Andrew is fluent in the electrical engineering, software, and medical device fields. In electrical engineering and software, Andrew’s practice includes control systems, video coding, automatic speech recognition, data aggregation and mining, and network-based transactions. In the medical device industry, Andrew works diligently with his clients to patent and safeguard their inventions and developments in medical electronics and technologies involving signal processing, RF therapeutics, cardiac rhythm management, wireless data transfer, optical and laser systems, processor control, physiological sensing, medical software, and product design.

Andrew enjoys working with clients to formulate and execute strategic plans as a valued member of their team. He strives to provide far more than just legal advice, but also insight into his clients’ overall financial objectives and the industries in which they operate

Before joining Knobbe Martens, Andrew served as Vice President of Engineering and Regulatory Affairs with a medical device manufacturer that developed solid state laser systems for dentistry and medicine. He was responsible for product design, development and engineering, FDA clearances and CE marking. An inventor himself, Andrew holds more than 50 U.S. and foreign patents and applications in the medical and dental laser fields. Having worked as a VP and an inventor, Andrew can anticipate the frustrations business owners and inventors face. As a result, he is a business-minded lawyer who remains dedicated to quickly identifying the relevant content and issues of the challenge at hand and distilling that information into a streamlined path to success.

Education

  • University of San Diego School of Law (USD) (J.D., 2002), cum laude, San Diego Law Review Comments Editor
  • Cornell University (B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1991)

Bar Admissions

  • State Bar of California
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

News & Insights

Speeches & Seminars

  • AR/VR Panel, OCTANe Technology Investor Forum, Irvine, CA (May 2016)

  • Preparing Your Life Science NewCo IP for Launch & Due Diligence, OCTANe Startup Series, Irvine, CA (March 2016)

  • What Entrepreneurs, Business Managers and Engineers Need to Know to Effectively Utilize the Current Patent System, OCTANe, Irvine, CA (October 2015)

  • What Businesses And Engineers Need To Know About Recent Developments In Patent Law, OCTANe Strategic Growth Series, Irvine, CA (December 2013)

  • IP Strategy During Medical Device Development, speaker, Institute of Medical Device Development’s (IMDD) Training Week, Waltham, MA (July 2013)

  • Intellectual Property Considerations During Product Development, speaker, BIOMEDevice, San Jose, CA (December 2011)

  • Best Practices Under the America Invents Act, speaker, in-house attorney seminar, Long Beach, CA (November 2011)

  • Intellectual Property Considerations During Product Development, speaker, Medical Design & Manufacturing, MD&M East, New York, NY (June 2011)

  • Intellectual Property for Engineers, guest lecturer, University of California, Irvine, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Prof. Derek Dunn-Rankin (February 2011)

  • Intellectual Property Considerations During Product Development, speaker, Medical Design & Manufacturing, MD&M West, Anaheim, CA (February 2011)

  • Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs, guest lecturer, University of San Diego School of Law, Entrepreneurship Clinic, Prof. Donna Matias, ongoing.

  • Latest Strategies For Effectively Managing Your Patent Portfolio, panelist, OCTANe Building Blocks lecture series, Irvine, CA (September 2009)

  • Avoiding Patent Pitfalls, panelist, OCTANe Building Blocks lecture series, Irvine, CA (March 2008)

  • Legal Guide – Intellectual Property (published by Entrepreneur Press), co-author (2007)

  • Intellectual Property for Engineers, guest lecturer, University of San Diego, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Prof. Leonard Perry (March 2005)

  • Data Privacy Blog

Latest Updates and News

Blog - Data Privacy
Feb 2021
FTC Settlement With Fertility-Tracking App May Have Costly Ramifications for Companies Who Use Third-Party Data Analytics Software
On January 13, 2021, the FTC announced that fertility app developer Flo Health, Inc. ("Flo") agreed to a settlement over allegations that the company shared app users’ health information with third-party data analytics providers, including Facebook and Google. The FTC originally filed the complaint against Flo after 2019 media reports alleged that the app used by more than 100 million consumers had shared customer information despite representations that Flo would keep such information private.
Blog - Data Privacy
Dec 2020
Canada Introduces the Consumer Privacy Protection Act
On November 17, 2020, the Canadian House of Commons introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 ("DCIA"), which includes the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CPPA”), a privacy focused arm of the legislation. The full text of the Bill can be found here. The CPPA would act as an update and expansion to the pre-existing federal, privacy law.
Blog - Data Privacy
Oct 2020
China, The World’s Largest Online Population, Introduces Its First Comprehensive Personal Information Protection Law
The People's Republic of China ("China") has introduced its first comprehensive data privacy law, which will explicitly protect the personal information of its residents. On October 21, 2020, China’s legislative body submitted a draft bill for the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) that would prohibit businesses and enterprises from misusing the personal information of Chinese residents. Like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the PIPL defines personal information broadly to include various types of electronic or otherwise recorded information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Blog - Data Privacy
Sep 2020
Criminal Enforcement Against Data Breaches Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
On April 20, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari in Van Buren v. United States to consider whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) if he accesses the same information for an improper purpose. Oral argument before the Supreme Court will be held on November 30, 2020.
Blog - Data Privacy
Aug 2020
Federal Regulation Repeals Will Not Protect Internet Service Providers From Maine’s New Privacy Law
In June 2019, Maine’s state legislature passed the country’s first privacy law specifically regulating Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) operating within the state. The law was introduced in response to the Trump Administration repealing an Obama Administration rule from 2017 that governed ISPs’ use of customer data. The Maine law, An Act to Protect the Online Privacy of Consumer Information, was passed with bipartisan support and closely replicates the repealed federal provisions. The law went into effect on July 1, 2020.
Publications
Dec 2011
An Intellectual Property Quiz: IP Considerations During Product Development | December 2011
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