Not long after Carl Horton joined GE Plastics, a division of General Electric Company, a competitor claimed that a line of GE resin products infringed on its patents. Horton’s then-boss Gary Loser (he recently retired as vice president and general counsel of Varian Semiconductor) remembers thinking that “Carl has a project where GE Plastics will have to pay royalties,” Loser says. Then again, maybe not. Horton analyzed the patents, found some strategic weaknesses, and negotiated a nonassert agreement so that no payment was necessary. “That’s when I followed much more closely the work he was doing and gave him more responsibility,” Loser says.
So did many other people. Horton rose through the ranks and exactly one year ago became chief IP counsel at one of the world’s premier companies. Along the way he has managed to develop a reputation for being friendly, generous, inspiring, hardworking, and smart. Says Rob Schulman, head of the life science group at Hunton & Williams, and both an outside counsel to Horton and a former colleague at Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis: “He’s very good at making you feel that what you’re doing is important.”
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