Leadership

Chris Carnaval is Senior Patent Counsel at Canon U.S.A., Inc., a position he has held since June 2016. Prior to joining Canon, Chris worked as an associate at the law firms of King & Spalding and White & Case in New York City. During his twelve years of law firm practice, Chris focused primarily on patent litigation, often defending major technology companies in NPE cases. Most of these cases involved telecommunications technology, computer software, or consumer electronics. Chris received his B.S. in Computer Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from Polytechnic University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School