Keith is the Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, an S&P 500 company based in Irvine, California. Keith leads IP efforts for the Company. He has deep experience in foreign and domestic patent litigation, foreign patent and trademark trials and appeals in London, Dusseldorf, Munich, Milan and other foreign courts. In March, 2010, his team won a willful infringement verdict and a $74,000,000 award in a patent infringement lawsuit in Delaware. He practiced law at Pretty Schroeder Brueggemann & Clark and Sheppard Mullin, is a past President of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, was named a Southern California Superlawyer, was Chief IP Counsel of Avery Dennison Corporation, and holds one U.S. patent. Keith holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Law degree from the University of Southern California.