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Kyle is an attorney with significant experience in intellectual property, technology transfer, licensing, IP commercialization, contract drafting and negotiation, and research and writing. Before working with Torrey Pines Law Group, Kyle was a Licensing Manager in the Technology Transfer Office at San Diego State University.
At SDSU, Kyle helped manage an office with 25-50 yearly disclosed inventions and creative works, oversee an IP portfolio resulting from over $140 million in annual grant funding on average, negotiate and execute a license with a Big Five tech company, and support research in virtually every major scientific, technical, and academic discipline.
Before beginning his legal career, Kyle graduated cum laude from The Ohio State University in 2011 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and cum laude from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 2014. During law school, Kyle served as an Associate Editor on law review, interned with local nonprofit organization New Media Rights, interned with the Navy’s patent division at SPAWAR (now NIWC), and externed with the Honorable Karen Crawford in U.S. District Court, Southern District of California.
Kyle also helped launch the Columbia Freedom of Expression project, where he served as lead editor and a legal researcher from 2014 to 2018. Kyle has published multiple law review articles in areas as diverse as federal technology transfer policy and custodial interrogation. Kyle passed the California Bar Exam in 2014 and the USPTO registration examination in October 2021. He is awaiting full recognition as a patent attorney from the USPTO.
