Philip McKay has been Chair of the Patent and Emerging Technology and the Intellectual Property and Internet practice groups since 2013. For 14 years prior to joining Hawley Troxell, Mr. McKay was a founding partner at Gunnison, McKay & Hodgson, LLP, a patent firm in Monterey, California. Mr. McKay has also worked as managing in-house patent counsel for a Fortune 100 Corporation where he supervised multiple patent attorneys and oversaw the patent programs of the hardware and research labs divisions to develop one of the largest patent portfolios in Silicon Valley.
With over 30 years of experience, Mr. McKay has personally prepared and prosecuted hundreds of domestic and foreign patent applications. He has extensive experience helping clients achieve strategic business objectives by providing strategic technology positioning and portfolio management counseling to companies throughout the world and in a wide array of technology sectors.
Law School:
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, J.D., 1993
USC Tax and Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Editor and Senior Editor
Undergraduate:
University of California, Los Angeles, B.S. Physics cum laude, 1990
Texas State Bar, since 2019
Washington State Bar, since 2015
District of Columbia, since 2015
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, since 1994
California State Bar, since 1993
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Southern California Intellectual Property Law Award, 1992
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