Chris Shrock

Biography:

Chris Shrock is an associate in GableGotwals’ intellectual property group, focusing on patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. His practice encompasses state and federal IP litigation, IP licensing and related transactions, and prosecution before the Patent & Trademark Office. As an electrical engineer, Chris’ technical insights have benefitted clients from start-ups to multi-national and global organizations, especially in the energy storage, software, oil and gas, and manufacturing industries. He has also conducted copyright analyses for clients in Oklahoma’s burgeoning film industry.

Chris is licensed to practice law in Oklahoma, before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Western Districts of Oklahoma, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Before going into law, Chris served as Dean of Arts & Sciences at Ohio Valley University in West Virginia and as Dean of Student Life at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. He has taught history, religion, philosophy, and physics. Chris has published extensively on Scottish philosophy, especially on Thomas Reid, whose philosophy of science was influential in early American jurisprudence.

Chris received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Tulsa, where he graduated cum laude with minors in economics and philosophy, completed the Honors Program, and conducted research in optics. He went on to receive a master’s degree in theology from the Harding School of Theology and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Baylor University before returning to The University of Tulsa for his J.D.