Karl Rees is an associate with Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker in San Jose, CA. He provides legal services with respect to intellectual property, with an emphasis in applying for and obtaining patents. Admitted to the California State Bar, Karl is also registered to practice before United States Patent & Trademark Office as a Patent Attorney. Karl has a technical background in Computer Science.

Karl is a 2007 graduate of BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he focused his studies on Intellectual Property (including Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks), Telecommunications, and Antitrust.

Karl Rees has, in the past, provided services in web and software development. Although he currently focuses on providing legal services, he maintains an active interest in web and software development.

Karl is a 2001 graduate of Brigham Young University with University Honors in Computer Science and English. He has 5+ years of experience in software and freelance web design. His skills include Perl, PHP, JSP, ASP, Java, .Net, MySQL, DHTML, CSS, and C++.

Karl Rees is a semi-accomplished poet whose works have appeared in various small and not particularly notable journals nationwide. He has been featured at a number of local and university-sponsored poetry readings. He maintains a collection of his poetry online.

Karl Rees enjoys hiking, ultimate frisbee, computers, writing, poetry, traveling, learning, singing, and the theater. Originally from Austin, Texas, Karl currently resides in San Jose, California. He has also lived in Utah, Washington D.C., Sydney, and Brisbane, Australia.

Karl and his wife Angela maintain an active online blog featuring weekly journal entries, musings, photo albums, videos, reviews, and recipes. They are the proud parents of one son.