OUR PEOPLE

Mr. Kirkpatrick received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University in 1992, and earned his J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in 2001 while working as an engineer at the Hyster-Yale forklift company.
Mr. Kirkpatrick joined SOEI Patent & Law Firm in 2017 and became qualified as a registered foreign attorney, or Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi, licensed to practice U.S. patent law in Japan. Prior to joining SOEI, he was a partner at the law firm Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt in Portland, Oregon. He has over seventeen years of experience working as a patent attorney in Japan and the U.S.
In 2022, Mr. Kirkpatrick opened SHIPWAY IP, a professional service corporation located in Seattle Washington, as the second U.S. office of SOEI Patent & Law Firm.