Simultaneous understanding of both complex laws and advanced technologies permits rapid recognition of legal issues implicated by technology, and also rapid recognition of technology issues implicated by legal and regulatory issues. The advantage of a single person having both legal experience (as a practicing attorney) and deep technology experience (as a PhD Electrical Engineer with a prior engineering career) can provide advantages for clients in multiple fields, including patents and privacy & security (cybersecurity).
Kelce Wilson, Of Counsel for Findlay Craft has a legal practice in both of those fields of law, leveraging his prior career. His engineering experience includes computer programming and working on some of the most advanced military and commercial technologies, such as radars, radar jammers, computational electromagnetics, wireless communication, encryption, and white hat cybersecurity testing. His legal experience includes all aspects of patents: prosecution (applying for patents), litigation, licensing, designing intellectual property (IP) portfolio strategy, and even IP assessment to support multi-million dollar acquisitions. He has led litigation strategy for multiple “bet-the-company” cases, crafting arguments relating to infringement and validity, in trial court and PTAB (IPR) proceedings.
He has published in trade publications and peer-reviewed journals, including law review and IEEE technical journal publications, and yet has the ability to explain complex concepts, having held a role as an adjunct professor of electrical engineering for some years.
Education
- University of Arizona, B.S. Electrical Engineering 1988
- Chapman University, M.B.A. 1993
- Air Force Institute of Technology, M.S. Electrical Engineering 1994
- Air Force Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1998
- Capital University Law School, J.D. 2005
Licenses
- Admitted to practice law in Texas
- Admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Registered to practice patent law before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Publications
Legal topics
- Blockchain's Potential Role In Admissibility Of Website Docs, Law360, July 2017
- Drafting Patent Claims in 5D, Law360, June 2017
- Planning Your Career in Patent Law, Intellectual Property Today, Sept. 2013
- How to Select Patent Counsel, Law 360, Sept. 2013
- The Four Phases of Patent Usage, Capital University Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, Summer 2012
- The Three Classes of Patent Usage, les Nouvelles, Journal of the Licensing Executives Society, Dec. 2011
- A Dozen Reasons Why Even Ideal Prior Art Searches Might Find Nothing, Intellectual Property Today, Sept. 2011
- Patent Application Prioritization and Resource Allocation Strategy, les Nouvelles, Journal of the Licensing Executives Society, June 2011
- Is Licensing a Patent Selling an Invention? Intellectual Property Today, Feb. 2011
- How Much Should You Invest in Patents? les Nouvelles, Journal of the Licensing Executives Society, March 2010
- Arresting the Export of Defense Technology, IP Law and Business, March 2008
- Patenting Computer Security Systems, Intellectual Property Today, Feb. 2008
Cybersecurity topics
- Cybersecurity Economics: How Much Cybersecurity is Enough? Intellectual Property Today, Oct. 2014
- Some Fundamental Cybersecurity Concepts, IEEE Access, Feb. 2014
- Conflicts Among the Pillars of Information Assurance, IEEE IT Professional, July/Aug. 2013
- How Much Should You Invest in Software Security? Armed Forces Communication Electronics Association, Critical Issues in C4I, May 2011
- An Introduction to Software Protection Concepts, Intellectual Property Today, Aug. 2007
- Systems, Intellectual Property Today, Feb. 2008
Other technology topics
- Electrically Extended Ground Plane for Cellular Antennas, International Scholarly Research Network, ISRN Communications and Networking, vol. 2012, Article ID 621526
- Design, Modeling, and Evaluation of a Multiband MIMO/Diversity Antenna System for Small Wireless Mobile Terminals, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, March 2011
- Investigation of Bistatic Calibration Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2005
- Radar Scattering Statistics for Digital Terrain Models, Targets and Backgrounds XI: Characterization and Representation, Proceedings of SPIE, 2005
- An Investigation of Bistatic Calibration Objects, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2005
- Comparing Edge Detection Algorithm Performance under Degrading Signal to Noise Ratio Conditions, AeroSense 2001, Optical Pattern Recognition
- Method for Predicting the Maximum Reliable Angle to Use in the Monostatic to Bistatic Equivalence Theorem, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2001
- Using a FVTD to Compare Control Surface Bistatic RCS Mechanisms, Proceedings of the Electromagnetic Code Consortium Annual Symposium, 2001.
- Phase-History Data Collection for Synthetic Scene Modeling Applications, AeroSense 2001, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Imagery
- A Performance Analysis of Several Bistatic Calibration Techniques, IEEE 2001 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- Modeling Artificial Synthetic Aperture Radar Clutter Scenes Using Spatial Autocorrelation and Group Statistics, AeroSense 2000, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Imagery
- Comparisons of Control Surface Electromagnetic Scattering Mechanisms, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, 2000
- Region Growing Shadow Segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images, 2000 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology
- Validation of Near-Field Monostatic to Bistatic Equivalence Theorem, IEEE 2000 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- Segmenting Shadows from Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Using Edge-Enhanced Region Growing, 2000 International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Algorithms and Systems for Optical Information Processing IV
- Probabilistic Backscatter Coefficient Generating Function, AeroSense 1999, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Imagery
- Phenomenology Metric Development for SAR Scene Modeling Tools, AeroSense 1999, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Imagery
- Terrain Backscattering Coefficient Generator, 1999 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
- Frequency Modulation by Noise Effects on Two-Stage Bandpass Systems, 41st Joint Electronic Warfare Conference, 1995
- Dependence of Monopulse Radar Boresight Error on Incident E-Field Polarization, IEEE 1995 International Radar Conference
