IP Watch, LLC

Sean Collin is Founder and Director of Research & Innovation at IPWatch Corporation. For more than two decades Mr. Collin has specialized in advising companies and individuals on maximizing revenue and asset value from intellectual property. He has represented Fortune 50 companies, Inc. 500 companies, financial institutions, public and private technology and brand focused companies, non-profit organizations, and countries. Mr. Collin’s expertise is in assisting a global array of clients to nationally and internationally protect and commercially leverage intellectual property and technology. He also advises such clients in all aspects of their corporate development, commercial exploitation, and international trade.

Mr. Collin was born and raised in Silicon Valley California to a family that has been involved in innovation for generations. Mr. Collin founded his first consulting company while attending university, which focused on trade and biotech innovation between Japan and New Zealand. After graduating from law school, Mr. Collin went to work for Mallesons, one of the largest international law firms in the Asia-Pacific. From there he was recruited to work for one of Washington, D.C.'s prominent international trade and intellectual property firms, Collier, Shannon & Scott. For several years Mr. Collin was based in their Asia Pacific Regional Office in Sydney, Australia, and then in Taipei, Taiwan, and Washington, D.C. While there he worked with and represented both the law firm and the consulting firm Georgetown Economic Services. He has worked, lived, and traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and the world.

Mr. Collin was featured in the May 6, 2002 issue of California Law Business as one of the top twenty lawyers under the age of 40 in the state of California in recognition of his legal work in the intellectual property and international fields. Mr. Collin was formerly Chair of the Information Technology & Media Group for the firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps and a Senior Partner heading up the Technology Transactions and Trademark Group at Pillsbury Winthrop in San Diego, California. He advised and assisted in the establishment of the San Diego office of Townsend, Townsend & Crew, the West Coast’s leading intellectual property boutique firm. Since 2007 he has worked with IPWatch Corporation's Consulting group, to serve a broad spectrum of clients in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

Mr. Collin holds an economics and law degree (with Honors) from Otago University in New Zealand, and a Master's Degree (with Distinction) from Georgetown University Law Center in International and Comparative Law with his Master's Thesis on "The Harmonization of the World's Intellectual Property Laws". Mr. Collin has spent 12 years of his life working and living outside of the United States in numerous countries. He is admitted to practice law in three countries and has lectured internationally in more than 10 countries.

Mr. Collin has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton Business School, The Graduate School of Public & International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, George Mason Law School, The University of California, National University, University of San Diego, and Curtin Technology University in Australia. Sean Collin is an Assistant tenure track Professor at the University of North Alabama, and teaches in their United States, China and Taiwan campuses in International Business Law, Entrepreneurship, international Business and other related subjects. Mr. Collin has been a frequent speaker to national and international trade associations such as the ACC, INTA, at business groups, and at national and international legal seminars in the United States, Australia, and Europe.

Mr. Collin has been extensively involved internationally with the American Chamber of Commerce while resident in Australia. He has sat on the boards of a number of different companies in different countries. Mr. Collin has been Vice President, International for the San Diego Software and Internet Council, Chairman of the International Trade Committee for Biocom, and was a member of the Board and International Public Policy Forum for the San Diego World Trade Center. He has also served on the Advisory Board of National University in California. He presently serves on the Advisory Board for the Business School of the University of North Alabama and is Executive Director of UNA's Institute for Export Research & Technology Transfer.

Mr. Collin has been an accredited United Nations representative in New York, U.S.A. and Geneva, Switzerland for The Pacific Rim Institute for Development & Education, an international non-governmental organization that represented the interests of orphans around the world. He has sat on the board of The Adoption Center of Washington, an international adoption center. Mr. Collin is currently Secretary of Sacred Healing Circle, a New Mexican non-profit corporation that focuses on assisting Native American communities. Mr. Collin is of Native American descent and has served as an ambassador for his ancestral tribe in Tennessee.