Chuck Fish
Senior Vice President
Chuck Fish is a seasoned intellectual property and legal executive with 25 years of experience in IP creation, management, licensing, valuation, counseling, and litigation.
As a principal at Ronin IP Mr. Fish has assisted a variety of SMEs with contentious and cooperative IP creation, assertion and valuation matters. Before that as VP and Chief Patent Counsel at Kudelski Group, a leading independent supplier to the pay TV industry and licensor of intellectual property, Mr. Fish focused on patent strategy, portfolio development, standards activities and complex IP-related licensing, litigation and M&A. Over his career as an IP executive, Chuck has successfully negotiated and closed deals with U.S., European, Asian and Middle Eastern companies in excess of $500M and managed large scale, multi-jurisdictional patent litigation and licensing activities.
Before joining the Kudelski Group, Mr. Fish served as VP and Chief Patent Counsel at Time Warner Inc., where he was responsible for all patent management functions, licensing, litigation, and deals including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures (such as the co-investment with Microsoft in the DRM company ContentGuard) for seven divisions (each a Fortune 500 company if standing alone: AOL, HBO, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Turner Broadcasting / CNN, Warner Bros., Warner Music). He earlier served as VP and Sector IP Law Director at Motorola, Chief Patent Counsel at General Instrument Corp., and a patent attorney at Sony Corporation, and with premier IP law firm practice groups including Chadbourne & Park, Perkins Coie and Morgan Finnegan.
Mr. Fish is a named inventor on over 10 US patents and published applications. He earned a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, and subsequently served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, mainly in the Western Pacific. He earned a J.D. cum laude from Wayne State University, is a registered patent attorney and member of the NY bar, and speaks regularly on patent and legal topics, including having testified before Congress.
