Parker Hancock
Senior Associate
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParker Hancock is a Senior Associate and registered patent attorney in Houston with nine years of experience at major firms, specializing in technology litigation, intellectual property, and cybersecurity. He combines trial experience in district courts and the ITC with deep patent prosecution work, including post-grant proceedings like IPRs and management of large portfolios for Fortune 500 clients. His technical background—an EE degree from Georgia Tech and hands-on programming across Python, Ruby, Scala, and Java—lets him translate complex innovations in cloud-native systems, ML/AI, distributed systems, and blockchain into robust legal strategies. Parker also contributes to open-source tooling for working with patent data and has improved the widely used requests-cache library’s caching and Windows compatibility, reflecting a practical engineering habit alongside his legal work. Colleagues rely on him when cases require both courtroom poise and detailed technical scrutiny of systems and code. He brings a rare hybrid of courtroom-tested litigation chops and active software development that helps clients bridge law and engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyJD, Law, JD, Law at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (22)
caching10
pytest10
python10
testing10
data-serialization10
serialization10
http-request10
disk-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
object-cache10
webscraping9
documentation9
http8
urllib6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
requests-cache/requests-cache
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Persistent HTTP cache for python requests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Parker primarily focused on improving the caching functionality of the `requests-cache` library. Their contributions included fixing Windows compatibility issues within the timeout decorator, removing unnecessary imports that masked other modules, and refining the handling of request parameters before caching. Furthermore, the user refactored and documented the serialization pipeline. The user also made improvements to the documentation, and made several changes to code style, for Flake8 compliance.
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parkerhancock/patent_client
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 429 commits, 134 PRs in 4 years 3 months
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