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Craig Carothers
PARTNER, MONETIZATION STRATEGY, GC
 As a registered patent attorney, Craig has 23 years of broad technical and legal experience ranging from cutting-edge, transaction-based IP risk profiling and risk management, to Space Shuttle Mission Control and Program Management. Since launching his own practice in 2004, Craig has guided a variety of IP-centric initiatives including strategic sale and acquisition of patent assets, IP investment and monetization, development of IP-backed debt instruments and specific technology commercialization efforts.
From 1997 to 2002, Craig co-founded and served as Executive Vice President of Litigation Risk Management, Inc. He then went on to serve as a Managing Consultant in the Intellectual Asset Management Practice of Marsh, Inc. In these roles, Craig has personally developed hundreds of IP investment risk profiles involving a broad range of technologies and industries including:
• Transmission Gate Multiplexers
• Enhanced DRAM
• Video Chip (V-Chip) design
• Internet Systems and Architectures
• Digital Media Distribution |
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• Cellular Telecom
• Satellite Tracking
• Medical Devices
• Pharmaceuticals
• Food Processing |
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• Simulator-based Computer Graphics
• Digital Film Editing
• Computer Aided Manufacturing
• E-commerce
• Solar-panel Design |
Craig has worked with, and on behalf of, individual inventors, global consumer electronics giants, universities, Fortune – 10 Conglomerates, venture capitalist, investment bankers, and underwriters at Lloyd’s of London. He is especially adept at communicating complex IP investment opportunities to non-attorney decision makers.
Craig spent his early career involved in NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Beginning with Shuttle Operations in the Mission Control Center in 1983, Mr. Carothers rose rapidly through increasingly responsible positions in Shuttle Program Management. Later as a registered patent attorney, Mr. Carothers’ focused on NASA technology transfer, licensing and commercialization.
Craig obtained his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1995. Upon his graduation, the Law Center created “The Carothers Prize” to honor his contributions to both the university and the intellectual property profession. The Carothers Prize is awarded annually to the graduating law center student who has done the most to advance the study of intellectual property in the United States. Craig received an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Houston in 1986 and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1982.
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