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Kristie D. Prinz

Kristie D. Prinz

The Prinz Law Office

Practice Areas

Kristie Prinz is Counsel for Stevens Law Group. Kristie is a SaaS, software, technology, digital health, life sciences, and IP business transactions lawyer, who has been roviding technical IP and business advice to early stage start-ups and mid-market companies for more than 26 years.

Kristie’s clients are primarily in the software-as-a-service (“SaaS”), technology, and digital heath and health and medical  technology industries, although her practice includes the hardware industry, the life sciences industry, the IT industry, the publishing industry, and other technology industry sectors.  Kristie generally advises her clients on business transactions with customers, licensees/licensors, resellers, suppliers & distributors, business partners, and buyers/sellers. Kristie also has an IP practice, where she manages trademark portfolios, advises on copyright matters, negotiates intellectual property licenses, and enforces intellectual property rights on behalf of clients, and a privacy law practice, where she advises clients on privacy compliance issues.

Experience

  • Guided start-ups through Fortune 10 companies with respect to identifying IP for protection, filing for patent protection, and prosecuting patent applications
  • Provided assistance to foreign clients and associates with respect to patent filings in the United States
Prior Professional Experience

Tech Law Ventures

Education

Juris Doctorate, University of Utah, 2015

BS Chemistry, University of Utah, 2012

BA, University of Utah, 2012

Address

Office  408.288.7588

Fax  408.288.7542

info@stevenslawgroup.com

Experience

Prior to founding The Prinz Law Office, Kristie was employed by the Palo Alto office of the 120-year-old boutique intellectual property firm of Pennie & Edmonds, LLP.  She began her legal career in Atlanta, Georgia, where she worked at the Philadelphia-based firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP.

Other Professional Credentials, Speeches and Publications

  • Author, “Managing the Legal Risks of AI on Intellectual Property and Confidential Information” to be published in the Consulting Psychology Journal by the American Psychological Association.
  • Author Silicon Valley Software Law Blog at https://siliconvalleysoftwarelaw.com and Silicon Valley Digital Health Law Blog at https://siliconvalleydigitalhealthlaw.com,
  • Founded Silicon Valley Software Advisors Group and Life Sciences Advisors Group
  • Selected by peers as a “Super Lawyer” in Northern California

Prior Professional Experience

Pennie & Edmonds, LLP

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP.

Education

Juris Doctorate, Vanderbilt Law School

Graduated from Furman University

Licensed to practice law in the states of California and Georgia.

Address

Office  408.288.7588

Fax  408.288.7542

info@stevenslawgroup.com