Kristen Johns is a transactional patent attorney in the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Kristen's experience intersects privacy, security, technology and intellectual property, and she leads the firm's distributed ledger/blockchain practice. As a registered patent attorney, Kristen helps clients protect and maximize their intellectual property assets and advises clients on a broad range of issues, including patent and trademark strategies, data privacy and security matters, cybersecurity and cloud-related issues with a particular focus on issues related to emerging technologies.