Jeffrey Mckinney

About Jeffrey Mckinney

Dr. McKinney has been practicing law for over fifteen years in Silicon Valley and Southern California. He has been in private practice at both Morrison & Foerster LLP, Palo Alto, and Townsend Townsend & Crew, Palo Alto, and has served as Chief Patent Counsel for a public company. Dr. McKinney received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was a Brown and Bain High Technology fellow. Prior to entering law school, he worked as a scientist for Zeneca 

Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca). Dr. McKinney holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Ohio State University, where he was a University Fellow and a Lubrizol Fellow, and he performed postdoctoral work at Stanford University as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow. Dr. McKinney earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude with departmental honors in English Literature at Hanover College in Indiana.  Mr. McKinney is a listed inventor on ten issued U.S. patents.

Education

  • Ohio State University
    281 W Lane Ave, Columbus, OH 43210

Practice Areas

  • Intellectual Property
  • Protecting your ideas using patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and intellectual property agreements.

  • Corporate Formation and Compliance
  • Choosing the best corporate framework and ensuring government

    regulations are met.

  • Corporate Transactions
  • Documenting business negotiations and objectives in an enforceable form

  • Commercial Litigation
  • Enforcing business agreements in court when other, less aggressive methods have failed.

  • Employment Litigation and Counseling
  • Ensuring that the employer/employee relationship is defined by law

    when parties disagree.

  • Outside GC Services
  • Working with existing legal service providers to increase their

    efficiency, decrease their cost and focus their efforts

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(650) 245-6723


Palo Alto, California

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