Gregory D. Leibold

Greg Leibold's practice is focused on counseling clients in acquiring, protecting, and leveraging their investment in innovation. Greg has prosecuted patents and negotiated agreements relating to a variety of technologies, including software, telecommunications, automotive technologies, internet telephony, mechanical and sports inventions, and financial services systems. He also assists clients in patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation; patent and trademark prosecution; validity and infringement opinions; and due diligence.

Greg's previous experience includes serving for six years as general counsel, first for an Internet teleconferencing company and then for an enterprise software firm. His in-house experience helps him understand his clients' motivations and pressures and how he can best provide what they need in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

Personal Approach

Greg loves that his clients are innovators who look at the world and try to improve it by making things better, faster, cheaper, and more accessible. He combines a passion for advocating and a fascination with technology to help his clients acquire and use their intellectual property portfolios as a critical component of their overall business strategy.

Greg is an avid golfer, fly fisherman, and Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

More About Gregory D. Leibold

Education

• J.D., University of Colorado Law School, Order of the Coif, 1996
• B.S., Electrical Engineering and English, Duke University, 1991

Bar Admissions

• Colorado, 1996
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1992

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 1998

Community

• Licensing Executives Society
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Association of Corporate Counsel, Colorado Chapter, Former Director

Clerkships

• Hon. Lewis T. Babcock, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado

News

Publications

Events

• Co-presenter, "When MOU is a Four-Letter Word – The Dangers of Memoranda of Understanding in Negotiating Collaboration Agreements," Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel Fall Frenzy, October 4, 2018
• Co-presenter, "Protecting IP in the Face of Increasing "Competition": Key Considerations in Joint Development Agreements," Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel Fall Frenzy, September 28, 2016.
• Presenter, "Running a Licensing Program – An Operating Company Perspective," IP Enforcement & Monetization Summit, April 21, 2016.
• Co-presenter, "Emerging Trend in M&A Practice- IP Reps, Warranties, and Insurance," Rocky Mountain IP Institute, May 2014
• Co-presenter, "Strange Bedfellows - Hybrid Patent & Trade Secret Licenses," Rocky Mountain IP Institute, May 2013
• Presenter, "25% Rule Held to be 100% Wrong? Reasonable Royalties After Uniloc," MIPLA IP Licensing Committee Meeting, 2012
• Co-presenter, "Reasonable is in the Eye of the Beholder," GC Symposium, ACC Colorado, April 28, 2011
• Co-presenter, "IP Product Lifecycle," Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel Meeting, April 21, 2011
• Presenter, 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property and Technology Institute, May 2009
• Presenter, "Slash but don't Burn? Prioritizing Intellectual Property in a Recession," ACC Colorado Lunch & CLE, April 2009
• Presenter, 6th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property and Technology Institute, June 2008
• Presenter, "Provisional Patent Rights in the United States," Licensing Executives Society Annual Meeting, October 2007