Ron Laurie:
CLASS OF 1959
Capuchino High SchoolClass of 1959
San bruno, CA
University of San Francisco - LawClass of 1968
San francisco, CA
University of California - Industrial EngineeringClass of 1964
Berkeley, CA
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Ron Laurie is a co-founder and Managing Director of Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC, an intellectual property investment bank formed in early 2004. Ron has worked in Silicon Valley for over 40 years, first as a software engineer and then as an intellectual property lawyer advising computer, communications, semiconductor, media and financial services companies on IP strategy, a subject he has taught at Stanford and Boalt (UC-Berkeley) law schools. Ron was a founding partner of the Silicon Valley offices of Skadden Arps and Weil, Gotshal, & Manges As a lawyer, his primary focus was on the strategic use of IP assets in complex business transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, technology divestitures, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and Ron led IP teams in some of the largest technology deals in history, worth over $50 billion.
Ron is a registered patent attorney and a substantial part of his earlier legal practice involved strategic planning, commercial exploitation and litigation of patents on cutting-edge software-based technologies such as artificial intelligence, encryption and Internet business methods including the much publicized Priceline patent. Ron has been listed in virtually every peer review survey of leading IP lawyers including: Top 25 Cal...Expand for more
ifornia IP Lawyers (Daily Journal), Best Lawyers in America (Woodward-White), America's Leading Business Lawyers (Chambers), Global Counsel 3000 (Practical Law Co.), and International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (Law Business Research). He has been an advisor to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office, the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, the National Research Council, the National Academy of Science and the World Intellectual Property Organization, a United Nations agency based in Geneva. He is on the Executive Council of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and is a permanent faculty member of the World Law Institute.
He is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Internet Law and The Computer Lawyer magazines and co-edited a two-volume treatise titled International Intellectual Property. He has been a Director of the Computer Law Association, and has served on the Executive Committees of the International Intellectual Property Association and the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California. He has lectured on intellectual property law topics at conferences of lawyers, judges, engineers, company executives and government officials in the United States, Japan, Europe, Australia and South America.
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