Remote Light Intellectual Property Licensing Team    

     Remote Light has assembled a first-class team of independent contractors, consultants and other nationally recognized experts to help manage its technology licensing which includes custom design, validation and prototyping services.  Part of our I.P. Licensing Team is listed below and another part is kept confidential until a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) has been signed.

                                                                                                                


Rick KingRick King
RLI Business Development, Strategic Partnerships
President, PreFlight Ventures (Full Bio -- PDF)

      Rick King (MBA, Harvard Business School; B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts) has over 23 years of experience in technology commercialization, corporate partnering, new ventures, coaching entrepreneurs, and is an international speaker and workshop leader. With an unparalleled passion and commitment to serve entrepreneurs, Mr. King has worked with over 150 technology start-ups and negotiated over 50 licensing, partnering, fundraising and M&A deals in software, Internet applications, electronics, chemical processing, hand held devices, communications, optical storage, factory automation, advanced materials, computer simulation, medical devices, food products, and biotechnology. Through these projects and workshops, PreFlight Ventures has helped start-ups raise over $500 Million and execute dozens of corporate deals.

     Mr. King has started and successfully exited technology businesses of his own, and held management and business development positions at Hewlett Packard, Procter & Gamble, and small high-tech companies. He also worked in Europe as part of a long-term special assignment with HP, and has been active in many strategic alliance projects.

     As a result of these experiences, Mr. King has led numerous business planning and sales efforts involving strategy, market assessment, technology valuation, and fundraising. Further, he has negotiated a variety of business arrangements (licensing, OEM, co-development, joint venture, venture capital, spin-off, distribution, and acquisition) encompassing traditional and novel deal structures. Along with a heartfelt passion to coach and help entrepreneurs he is active with business incubators, investment groups, and government-funded small business programs such as SBIR and NIST ATP. More information on Mr. King can be found at www.preflightventures.com .

Karl G. LindenKarl G. Linden
UV Consulting Scientist / Chair of UV Technology Committee (Full Bio -- PDF)

     Karl G. Linden, Ph.D., is Professor of Environmental Engineering and Liebman Faculty Fellow at The University of Colorado at Boulder, previously on the faculty at Duke University.  Dr. Linden received a B.S. from Cornell University and M.S. and Ph.D. from The University of California at Davis.  He teaches classes on Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes, Water Reuse, and Fundamentals and Applications of UV Processes in Environmental Systems. Dr. Linden’s research has focused on efficacy of alternative technologies in water treatment and water reuse such as UV irradiation for inactivation of microbial pathogens; and the use of advanced oxidation for the degradation of environmental pollutants.  His research is funded by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWARF), the WateReuse Foundation (WRF), the USDA, the NIEHS, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Science Foundation. He has guided over $6M in externally funded research and authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications.

     Dr. Linden is an associate editor of ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering and a founding board member and International Vice President of the International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA).  He also consults for many of the major environmental engineering consulting firms, water and wastewater utilities, and has served as expert witness on a number of legal cases involving water treatment.

 

John HardawayJohn Hardaway
Head IP Licensing Attorney, Nexsen Pruet Adams Kleemeier, LLC (Full Bio -- PDF) 

     John B. Hardaway's practice of intellectual property law was with government and/or industry until 1980 when he went into private practice. The Hardaway Law Firm, P.A. was started in 1980 and grew to nine IP attorneys before the firm joined Nexsen Pruet in 1999.

     Mr. Hardaway received a B.S. degree in Ceramic Engineering from Clemson University and a Master of Science degree from Iowa State University also in Ceramic Engineering. He attended law school at Catholic University while also working as an Examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Hardaway received a J.D. degree from the University of Tennessee while employed in the office of Chief Counsel of the Atomic Energy Commission for the handling of patent matters for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More information may be found at www.nexsenpruet.com.

Career Highlights                       

  • - American Intellectual Property Law Association - Past Chairman, IP Practice in Japan Committee
  • - Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association of the Carolinas - Past President
  • - US Bar - Japanese Patent Office Liaison Council, Past Chairman
  • - International Trademark Association - SC State Trademark Editor
  • - FICPI - Chairman-Elect, US Section; Presented on Trademark License at 2005 FICPI Open Forum in _Lisbon, Portugal, 2007 Beijing Forum, 2008 Florence, Italy Forum
  • - Moderated INTA Forum in Munich on European Trademark Laws in December 2001
  • - South Carolina Bar - Former Delegate
        • - Citizens Ambassador's Programs on patent and trademark related projects to China, Japan and the _former Soviet Union - Delegate
  • - Named to Thomas Green Clemson Academy of Engineers and Scientists, 2006
  • - Rotary International Youth Exchange - Chairperson