Donald Boles:  

Life Mr. Boles earned his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dayton, Ohio in 1976 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton School of Law in 1979. He started his career in law at Westinghouse Electric as a Patent Attorney, moving to AMP Incorporated in 1982 where he handled all of the company’s Pacific Rim IPR activities, including negotiating licenses, enforcement actions and managing the Patent Prosecution. Thereafter, he was in private practice in NY as an associate in a law firm and as a licensing executive with a technology transfer company. In 1992, he began work for Siemens Corporation handling several large business units as well as some M&A activities. In 1997, Don became employed as the Vice President of Intellectual Property of InterDigital Communications Corporation and then promoted to the position of Senior Vice President holding the title of Chief Patent Strategist as well as Vice President of Intellectual Property and Chief Patent Counsel of InterDigital Technology Corporation, which is the InterDigital subsidiary that holds issued and pending patents. During his tenure at InterDigital, the company has seen the patent portfolio expand over tenfold to become one of the top 300 companies in the world in terms of issue US patents granted. He was the in-house person m...Expand for more