Senior Patent & Business Strategist at IP Checkups, Inc.
June 2015 - Present | Berkeley, California
IP Checkups combines custom intellectual asset management and patent search services with powerful web-based software solutions enabling companies to identify, analyze, manage, monitor and update patent information relevant to their technology and markets.
IP Checkups provides customers with competitive patent landscape analysis along with its proprietary patent management and monitoring software, PatentCAM™, that enables companies to build strategic, defensible and valuable patent portfolios that are aligned with their business objectives.
Our collaborative process relies on our expert patent searchers and analysts partnering with your domain experts to answer important questions such as:
Who are the key organizations filing patents in your technology space and what are they working on?
How rapidly is new innovation taking place in your space?
Where are the opportunities for strategic growth, investment or licensing within your field?
Where are the new and emerging technologies being developed in your space?
Which patents are the most valuable in your area?
Partner Manager at ReCoTech GmbH
November 2013 - Present | Berlin, Germany
International licensing for recotech: efficient relocation.
recotech is an IT-based strategic planning tool for optimizing and calculating space allocation. It can be used for relocations, restructuring and space reduction in existing and new buildings – regardless of whether the property is owned or rented.
Technology and intellectual property consultant at Haselton IP
October 2013 - Present | Berlin, Germany
Technology development. Patent strategy and litigation services.
Advising on and helping bring new technologies to market.
Drafting and executing IP strategies for startups and established companies as well as assisting in patent litigation with invalidity, infringement and non-infringement reports.
IP Consultant Europe at patent2ip
October 2014 - May 2015 | Pleasanton, CA
Liason with clients based in Europe for IP development and management services, offering integrated IP portfolio management including patent assessments. Our core competencies add value to our clients' competitive advantage:
* Strategic Business Development
* Technical Expertise
* Excellence in IP Management
Systems Engineer, then R&D Research Engineer at Siemens ICM, Siemens Communications, then Nokia Siemens Networks
2001 - March 2008
o As part of a 10-person team, conducted technical analysis and concept development in telecommunications network management for unified communications and converging systems.
o Developed platform architectures for network management solutions common across multiple technology domains, based on multiple technology platforms and for fixed mobile convergence.
o Contributed to the standardization of next generation mobile networks for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) related to Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and System Architecture Evolution (SAE).
o Conducted feasibility studies and pre-analysis of features for network management products and Operation, Administration & Maintenance (OAM); focused on the core network.
o Built a prototype for a subscriber management application. Mostly done with Perl.
Research and Teaching Associate at Universitat Potsdam, Institut f. Geowissenschaften
1996 - 2001
o Coordinated, conceived, obtained funding for and successfully executed federally and EU funded research projects on active tectonics, paleoseismology and landscape change in the high mountains of the Kyrgyz Tien Shan and Argentine Andes.
o Established and maintained computer laboratories for geoscience research.
o Developed curriculum and provided instruction on the use of satellite remote sensing and GIS methods for geoscience in a newly established department.
Consultant at Pardee Games
1989 - 1999
I provided consulting services for Pardee Games in its beginning years. Currently, they manufacture and market the abstract strategy board game Chebache(R), an innovative game combining elements of Checkers, Backgammon, and Chess (see www.chebache.com for more information).
o Evaluated, streamlined and revised game rules;
o Reviewed business strategies;
o Promoted Chebache(R) at domestic and international game fairs to the game industry and the general public.
Graduate Studies, focus on geoscience at Dept. of Geoscience / Dept of Applied Physics, Cornell University
1991 - 1995
o Estimated rainfall using passive microwave data from the Special Sensor Microwave/Image (SSMI) instrument on satellites from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).
o Conducted extensive research on extreme storms, floods and fractal flood distribution.
o Developed and ran extensive systems of scripts for 24/7 data collection, processing, analysis and archival.
Consultant at Dept. of Materials Science, Cornell University
1990 - 1991
Conducted research at National Nanofabrication Facility on adhesion of thin films for chip interconnects.
Graduate studies, focus on MEMS/optics at Dept. of Electrical Engineering / Dept. of Applied Physics, Cornell University
1986 - 1989
o Researched methods of producing Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) at the National Nanofabrication Facility (NNF) using selective tungsten deposition and standard silicon fabrication techniques.
o Fabricated thin silicon nitride membranes for stress measurements.
o Performed research on ring-dye lasers for femtosecond spectroscopy and microwave antenna characterization.
Consultant at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1984 - 1986
Bring-up & testing of a laser scanning system for the direct writing of polysilicon on silicon in programmable gate arrays.
Research Assistant at International Business Machines
June 1983 - August 1983
Research on real-time differential holography.
Licensing Manager at ipal Gesellschaft fur Patentverwertung Berlin mbH
April 2008
o Manage a broad technology IP portfolio concentrating on communications, semiconductors, lasers, medical technologies and software/algorithms.
o Conduct evaluations of invention disclosures on behalf of a consortium of universities, colleges and research institutes; conceive and execute strategies for protecting, developing, commercializing, and monetizing IP.
o Demonstrate outstanding communication, presentational and business development skills addressing research groups to generate awareness/sensitization of IP issues and to proactively acquire new accounts both within and outside of Germany.
o Screen and evaluate projects for TEF (Technologie Entwicklungs-Fonds), an IP investment fund; awarded the first signed IP contract of TEF for VCSEL-based electro-optic transceiver development.
o Assist startup founders with development, financing, licensing and IP.
o Evaluated over 200 invention disclosures and successfully pursued viable patents through conclusion of sale and licensing agreements.
o Negotiated largest sale for ipal and the TU Berlin to date of $1,100,000.00 for one patent family.
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