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E. Colin Cicotte

Phone

Fax

248-689-4071

Assistant

Emily Meerhaeghe
Assistant Ext: 172

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Biography

Colin is a Managing Shareholder on the firm’s Management Committee.  Colin has an unusually diverse practice that integrates degrees in technology, finance, and the law. In addition to counseling large corporate clients with respect to the acquisition and management of large global patent portfolios—especially in the electrical and computer arts—Colin also spends a significant amount of his practice negotiating and drafting a wide variety of license agreements as well as other business development legal frameworks.  Colin has designed complex joint development agreements, data/software licenses, and IP licensing agreements that include not only legal terms but also the financial ones as well.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

State of Michigan
The Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Education

University of Michigan
Wayne State University

Memberships and Associations

Michigan Intellectual Property American Inn of Court (Master)
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Michigan Intellectual Property Law Associatio

Professional Experience

General counsel at an automotive consulting firm
Intern at the Michigan Supreme Court
Note editor for the Journal of Law and Society

Publications & Presentations

  • Co-authored the United States section of “The Legal 500: Intellectual Property Country Comparative Guide,” The In-House Lawyer, Summer 2017
  • The Great Divide – Sorting Out Method Claims and Multiple Actors by E. Colin Cicotte and Scott A. Hogan. This article first appeared in IAM Yearbook: Building IP value in the 21st century 2017, a supplement to IAM, published by Globe Business Media Group, IP Division. To view the guide in full, please go to www.IAM-media.com
  • “Detroit Patent Office Opens Its Doors,” written for the Fall 2012 edition of Business Casual, published by the New Lawyer’s Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Publications/News

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Newsletter August/September 2026
The August/September edition of our newsletter is now available.  Here is a brief glance at what you will find in this edition: “How not to...
Shannon Smith was appointed as Academic Liaison for the Intellectual...
Shannon Smith was appointed as Academic Liaison for the Intellectual Property Inn of Court Executive Committee.  As Academic Liaison, Shannon will help strengthen connections between...
Corey Beaubien and Colin Cicotte attended the Association of Corporate...
Corey Beaubien and Colin Cicotte attended the summer meeting of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel held in Denver.  The Association is a professional community...