Tom F. Pruitt

Founder

Tom F. Pruitt PLLC (USA)

Tom Pruitt currently provides international IP transactional services for selected clients. For over 40 years, Tom has supported numerous major (up to multi-Billion dollar value) licenses, joint venture formations, divestitures/acquisitions, and joint development agreements with tech licensing/transfer aspects. Diverse experiences includes supporting IP transactions with entities in the People’s Republic of China (including Hong Kong pre- and post- SAR), South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, England, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, India, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Australia and other countries. Tom has supported entities ranging from large corporations to venture capital/private equity funded entities. He is licensed to practice before the USPTO (since 1981) and in Texas (active) and as well in Colorado, Oklahoma and various US Federal Courts including Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Tom has BChemEng (Georgia Tech), MEng, Economics minor (NC State) and JD (Baylor). From 1990 to 2018, Tom was an Arbitrator, as a panel member, American Arbitration Association. Tom has received numerous awards for technology transfer agreements and has been a visiting IP speaker at Licensing Executive Society events, Princeton University in N.J. (Chem Eng group) and S.F. Austin State University in Texas.