In reporting on the imminent departure of Richard “Chip” Lutton, Jr., Dan Levine and Poornima Gupta wrote that the move comes “at a time when the iPhone maker is fighting numerous legal battles around the world” and is “engaged in an expanding web of litigation concerning smartphone patents, mostly with phonemakers using Google’s rival Android software.”
The Reuters piece cites an anonymous source for the news about Lutton’s decision, and indicates “BJ Watrous, a former deputy general counsel with Hewlett Packard, is now listed as Apple’s chief IP counsel on Watrous’s LinkedIn web page.”
