Wylie Schnorr serves as Legal Counsel at Bull Harttraft LLP, where he focuses on intellectual property, technology law, and advisory work for blockchain protocol developers. His practice sits at the intersection of IP strategy and emerging technology, helping clients protect proprietary innovations while navigating the open-source norms and collaborative development models that define the blockchain ecosystem.
Wylie advises on the full spectrum of intellectual property matters relevant to technology companies, including patent strategy, trade secret protection, trademark portfolio management, and software licensing. In the blockchain context, he has developed particular expertise in the IP challenges unique to decentralized projects - from open-source license compliance and contributor agreements to the protection of proprietary protocol improvements and the management of IP rights across distributed development teams. He helps clients strike the right balance between open collaboration and defensible competitive advantages.
Beyond traditional IP work, Wylie provides strategic counsel to protocol developers and blockchain infrastructure companies on technology governance, protocol upgrade processes, and the legal dimensions of technical standards-setting. He understands both the code and the law, enabling him to translate complex technical architectures into coherent legal strategies. His background in technology law gives the firm a critical capability in advising clients whose core assets are algorithms, protocols, and the data architectures built on top of them.