Intellectual Property
Jul. 15, 2011
Apple's chief patent counsel to depart
Richard J. "Chip" Lutton, Apple Inc.'s longtime chief patent counsel, will be leaving the company later this year as it battles multiple competitors in infringement complaints over its mobile phone technology.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Richard J. "Chip" Lutton, who joined Apple Inc. as its chief patent counsel a few months before the wildly popular iPod music player transformed the company into a technology powerhouse, will be leaving later this year.
During his decade with Apple, Lutton helped grow a department with only a handful of in-house IP lawyers into a 25-attorney group at a company that increasingly relies on i...
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