Chip is Chief Patent Counsel at Apple Inc., where he oversees a team that manages patent development, licensing and litigation. He has spoken widely on a variety of topics and has testified before Congress on the patent system. Prior to joining Apple, Chip was at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and an attorney at Arnold, White & Durkee (now Howrey Simon Arnold & White) in its Menlo Park, California and Houston, Texas offices. He spent one year as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Randall R. Rader at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.