John D. Kinton is chief legal officer at Access Advance, LLC, an independent licensing administrator company formed to lead the development, administration, and management of patent pools for licensing essential patents of the most important standards-based video codec technologies. John is a US lawyer and a UK solicitor with over 25 years’ experience in Intellectual Property law. Prior to joining Access Advance, John managed Walmart’s patent and internet privacy litigation. In private practice as a partner at Jones Day and DLA Piper, John litigated cases in various jurisdictions, including the US, the UK, Germany, Norway, Canada, and Brazil. Some of John’s notable achievements include litigating a trade secret misappropriation case that resulted in a global settlement for Qualcomm against Apple and trying a patent case that resulted in a record-breaking damages verdict for Idenix against Gilead.