Pat Santos

Pat is currently Deputy Director of Lee & Hayes' Intellectual Property Counseling Group (IPCG) and has performed numerous defensive patent analyses, patent portfolio analyses, standards analyses and other IP matters for large and small clients alike. Prior to Lee & Hayes, Pat worked on the Patent Analysis Team in the Microsoft Patent Group, where over he worked on conflict matters, patent cross licensing, portfolio reviews, regulatory matters (European Union, U.S. Department of Justice), product and employment clearance, and standards work.

Pat has an extensive technical background in software engineering. He has coded professionally from 1991-2003, including 7.5 years at Microsoft. While on the Windows XP Embedded product team, he was named co-inventor on patents US 7,174,540 and US 7,321,897. While at Microsoft, he was also a Data Structures and C Programming instructor at Bellevue Community College and at the University of Washington. His specializations are in databases, distributed systems, and embedded systems.

Pat was a Microsoft LCA Scholar and was a member of the Thomas Tang Moot Court, and the Seattle University In-House Intellectual Property Moot Court.