Chris focuses his practice on counseling and securing foreign and domestic patent rights for his clients. Chris’s practice includes drafting and prosecuting patent applications related to signaling, image processing, media distribution, mobile identity software, pay system software, voice and facial recognition, intelligent transportation systems and user interface systems in both the United States and in foreign jurisdictions for market leaders in the mobile communications and telecommunications technology industry.

Chris received his J.D. from the Seattle University School of Law. He earned his B.S. in computer science, with honors, from the University of Redlands in 2003. Chris is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and is a currently serving officer in the National Guard. Chris is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Washington State Bar

Loren Donald Pearson Esq. Registered Patent Attorney Board Certified Intellectual Property Law ASSOULINE & BERLOWE, PA

Loren Donald Pearson identifies, registers, and polices his client’s intellectual property rights by filing patents, trademark, and copyrights in the U.S. Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Offices. He also extends his clients U.S. rights into foreign jurisdictions. He has significant experience with both outgoing and incoming international patent applications based on the Patent Cooperation Treaty, Paris Convention, and Madrid Protocol. Mr. Pearson’s practice includes other intellectual property issues, such as, patentability searches, trademark availability, infringement/non-infringement opinions, and licensing. He also represents clients in inter-parties disputes, such as, Oppositions, Cancellations, Interferences, and Concurrent-Use Proceedings within the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. Pearson represents foreign law firms desiring to file foreign applications in the United States. He has significant (100+ cases) experience filing patents in the United States. He is experienced using the Paris Convention, the PCT National Phase, and PCT Bypass as means of claiming foreign priority.

Mr. Percy is Director of Market Development at AudioCodes, a leading provider of Voice over IP Telephony products and enabling technology. In this role, Mr. Percy is responsible for identifying market trends and building relationships to foster new business opportunities. Mr. Percy joined AudioCodes in 2001 and brings over two decades of experience in the telecommunications, networking and wireless equipment industries. Mr. Percy is a frequent industry speaker and contributes to a number of industry journals and blogs including “The SIP Invite” and “NoJitter.com

Julius P. Knapp II is the chief of the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) Office of Engineering Technology (OET). OET is the Commission’s primary resource for engineering expertise and provides technical support to the Chairman, Commissioners and FCC Bureaus and Offices.

Mr. Knapp was named Chief of OET in October 2006, succeeding Ed Thomas who left the previous year, although he was the acting chief for some time before that. He became the Deputy Chief of OET in May 2001. Prior to that he was the Chief of the Policy & Rules Division where he was responsible for FCC frequency allocation proceedings and for proceedings amending the FCC rules for radio frequency devices. Mr. Knapp was Chief of the FCC Laboratory from 1994–1997 where he was responsible for the FCC’s equipment authorization program and technical analyses.

Mr. Knapp received a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1974. He is a member of the IEEE EMC Society and is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America. He was the 2001 recipient of the Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication to public service and received the FCC’s Silver and Gold medal awards for distinguished service at the Commission.

Fred DuFresne is an inventor and entrepreneur with expertise in software, intellectual property and technical medicine. He holds more than a dozen patents around the world.

In 1994, Fred invented the technology behind server-side scripting in web sites and his company WebMate Technologies was subsequently awarded US Patent 5835712. By early 2000, WebMate Technologies had dissolved and Fred was able to re-acquire the ‘712 patent during a court-ordered auction.

Fred began to defend his patent rights and filed actions in US Federal District Court against a number of large companies, including Microsoft, Allaire Corp., Adobe, Macromedia and others. He also filed actions in the Canadian courts on similar grounds. The last of these actions was successfully settled in 2010.

Today, this technology can be found in Microsoft’s ASP framework, Oracle’s JSP platforms and all “open source” PHP and LAMP based products. Worldwide, server-side scripting technology can now be found on eight out of every ten web sites.

Fred also has extensive experience in the healthcare and medical device fields. In particular, he developed cancer treatment regimen administrative support tools, drug interaction detection systems and an intravenous device selector. Fred was the principal inventor for US patent 6012034, titled System and method for selecting an intravenous device.” This technology is now incorporated in most patient care systems.

Fred has received significant industry accolades, including the following:

•Network Computing Editor’s Choice Award
•Named One of the most influential people on the Internet by Interactive Week
•Recognized by the Open Invention Network as a Distinguished Inventor for his development of server-side scripting.

In 1974, Fred became the youngest instructor in Data Processing for Johnson and Wales University in Providence, where he received an award from the student-led Data Processing Association for dedication to the department

Fred has also spoken and written about the early web extensively. His published work includes: “The Internet and Your Business - Making Money on the Superhighway (1994) and Providing Public Services on the Superhighway (1995).

Fred founded and developed numerous companies including Interactive Systems, Inc. in 1976, Knowledge Based Technologies, WebMate Technologies and iNET911.com, Inc. in the 1990’s and the Canadian company CeriNet in 2002.

He currently serves on the advisory board of Augme Technologies Inc., the leading company in mobile marketing. He is also an advisor to the ipCapital Licensing Company, based in Vermont.

Fred holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with Honors from Boston State College.

He spent his early years as an active Boy Scout and earned his Eagle in 1966. A Massachusetts native, Fred now lives in Virginia.

Todd L. Juneau of Juneau Partners has over 16 years’ experience as Registered Patent Attorney in private practice and has specialized expertise in the areas of patent prosecution, building of domestic and international patent portfolios, analyzing patent positions and validity, particularly in the telecommunication, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries, and providing advice to corporations and universities regarding patent matters. Mr. Juneau has been involved in negotiating hundreds of deals on behalf of clients during his career.

Mr. Juneau has written, filed, and managed over 360 U.S. patent applications and over 1200 international applications for large corporations, start-up companies, major universities, and medical schools from around the world. Mr. Juneau has been a partner at a Washington, D.C. patent & trademark law firm and has represented Fortune 500 corporations from France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Mr. Juneau has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in Federal District Court including actions for patent infringement, defense against patent infringement, Section 337 trade-related patent infringement, trademark infringement, and breach of trade secrets. Mr. Juneau has been admitted to the District Court for the District of Columbia, the Florida Southern District Court, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Mr. Juneau is licensed to practice In the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Illinois, before the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, PTO Board of Patent Appeals, and PTO Board of Trademark Appeals. Mr. Juneau received a Juris Doctorate in 1995 from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, a B.S./B.A. Microbiology in 1991 from The University of Minnesota, and is currently enrolled in the The George Mason University graduate engineering program for a M.S. Telecommunications & Computer Engineering.

Mark Hewitts Summary CEO at MetroCore Holdings, LLC

Also -Chief Technology Officer at EcoSystem Partners, LLC and Partner at NextBendWinner of the (2010) “Who’s Who” Business leader of the year where has distinguished his 30 year career in business and technology with numerous awards for product innovation; Mark has a passion applying his physics background to everyday business and technology; working to apply this experience to economics where it brings focus on achieving a sustainable future.

Today he is focused on expanding the framework created by the MetroCore which is a business and technology protocol designed to aid in the planning, engineering, modeling, construction, and long term operations of sustainable systems. The MetroCore framework provides developers, engineers, architects, and planners with the tools necessary to model complex systems. Then once built the MetroCore provides systems designed to manage and operate Smart Cities and Building Systems.

William (Bill) Geary – MPGL VP Business Development at MPEG LA, where he is responsible for identifying, organizing, and facilitating new patent pools for licensing by the company. For more than fifteen years he has been involved in the formation and operation of patent pools in a wide variety of technologies. Before joining MPEG LA, Mr. Geary was General Patent Counsel in the Samsung Electronics Washington, DC office where he handled worldwide patent licensing and litigation for eleven years and negotiated hundreds of patent license agreements and directed dozens of litigations in the U.S. and overseas.

Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Geary worked as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute and Harris Corporation. He has degrees in law, electrical engineering, and an MBA.MPEG LA, LLC operates as a licensing administrator. It offers alternative technology licenses, which enable users to acquire worldwide patent rights necessary for a technology standard or platform from multiple patent holders in a single transaction as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses. MPEG was founded in 1996 is based in Denver, Colorado. The company has locations in Washington, District of Columbia; Greenwood Village, Colorado; Chevy Chase, Maryland; London, the United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; and Shanghai, China

Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the company formed by IBM, Novell, NEC, Philips, Red Hat and Sony to protect Linux. In this capacity he spearheads the company’s efforts to leverage its intellectual property portfolio, and the growing Linux ecosystem it fosters, to stifle businesses and organizations that try to slow or harm Linux growth and development.

Prior to joining the Open Invention Network, Mr. Bergelt served as president and CEO of two Hedge Funds – Paradox Capital and IPI – formed to unlock the considerable asset value of patents, trademarks and copyrights in middle market companies. Paradox and IPI were the first Funds of their kind to offer specialty lending products supported exclusively by intellectual property. Driven by Mr. Bergelt’s creativity and entrepreneurial approach, these funds enabled the emergence of patents, trademarks and copyrights as a viable source of collateral in asset-based loans, forever reshaping the emerging IP Finance landscape.

Jeff Dalton is the founder and president of Patent Strategies, a company focused on helping inventors and companies leverage their intellectual property (IP) investment. Mr. Dalton specializes in developing patent strategies that synchronize with business and research goals to strengthen market position and optimize investment and protection.

Prior to founding Patent Strategies, Mr. Dalton was the Vice President of Product Development at Acushnet Co., and later the Vice President of Intellectual Property. During his tenure, Mr. Dalton spearheaded the development and execution of Acushnet’s patent strategy to prevent competitors from encroaching on technology or gaining a foothold in new technology.

Previously, he held a number of research and development roles with innovators in multiple industries such as Technology, Sporting Goods, Biotech, Retail, and consumer product. His past employers include Rogers Corporation, global technology leader in specialty materials and components; Gentex is a global, high technology electronics company; and Opti-Coatings.

Throughout his career, he has shown a commitment to community service and the quality of life of people by serving as a Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Greater New Bedford, Massachusetts Chairman of the Board of Directors in addition to chairing the Strategic Planning and Citizen’s Review committees. Formerly a recording artist, he has successfully married his love of music with fundraising and routinely participates with his band, Octopus’ Garden, in events to support worthy causes.

Tim Wagner joined Samsung Mobile in 2010 as Vice President and General Manager of Business to Business (B2B) Sales. Mr. Wagner’s responsibilities include the management and growth of Carrier, Channel and Direct Sales of Samsung’s Enterprise Solution Portfolio (Smartphones, Tablets, Accessories and Vertical Applications) in the United States. He is also responsible for the evaluation, evolution and marketing of Samsung’s Enterprise Solutions, now called SAFE (Samsung Approved For Enterprise), with both internal Samsung Development Organizations as well as Strategic Partners.

Mr. Wagner joined Samsung from Research In Motion (RIM), where he was responsible for Business Solution Sales in North America. During his tenure at RIM, he was responsible for creating, managing and growing overlay solution sales and support teams for RIM’s Carrier Business Units, Direct Sales Organization and Channels Organization. Prior to his work at RIM, Mr. Wagner was responsible for Sales at Ascendent Systems which was acquired by RIM in March of 2006. Mr. Wagner has held senior leadership positions at several other high-tech companies such as Watch Hill Partners (acquired by MasterCard Advisors) and GreenPages Technology Solutions.

Mr. Wagner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Vermont’s Kalkin School of Business with a double concentration of International Business and Management Information Systems (MIS).

With more than 20 years experience in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and International Marketing, Chris Swearingen is currently leading the SenseAware effort for FedEx. In his role, Chris oversees the US domestic and global rollout of SenseAware.

He has spent the last seven years at FedEx fulfilling a multitude of roles. Chris was hired by FedEx to launch its entry into NASCAR. In 2007, he was asked to move to the Innovation Department to utilize his start-up experience on the SensAware project. He was responsible for prototyping various business models, customer deployment and the day-to-day business operations of SenseAware.

Chris’ duties were recently expanded to include overseeing the SenseAware strategic direction including product development, customer experience, User-Interface design and market expansion.

His career has been eclectic with a mix of entrepreneurial, corporate and agency experience. He has worked with McDonald’s and various other Fortune 100 companies. He owned multiple Play It Again Sports stores and was the President of 360¬¬? Sports Marketing. Roush Racing acquired the agency and Chris went on to work as a senior member of the race team.

Mr. Dohrmann is Chairman of CEO Space International, the largest support organization for business owners and the inventor of Super Teaching, a title 1 technology for public schools that greatly accelerates retention. Frequently speaking on stages as the guest of nations, and VIP conferences, Berny is a recognized author presently completing his newest book titled, “Redemption, The Cooperative Revolution.”

Raised as a fifth generation San Franciscan, Berny grew up when the Macy Building on Union Square was the Dohrmann Building dominating “the square” into the 1970’s. The Dohrmann family operated Dohrmann Hotel Supply; the largest global resort-outfitting firm now owned by Holiday Inn. The family also owned the Emporium store chain from the 1800’s, as one of the larger department store chains forging the history of the West Coast market place.

Berny’s father, Alan Dohrmann, was a corporate trainer who was sought out by such notables as Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Walt Disney, Warner Earnhardt, John Hanley, Thomas Willhite, Bucky Fuller, Dr. Edward Deming and Jack Kennedy. Berny grew up with amazing mentors as one of nine children raised in Marin County California

Mr. Dohrmann was mentored by the man who pioneered oil tanker funding in the 1960’s and 1970’s, George Witter of Dean Witter when the brokerage firm was a family owned San Franciscan firm, and Peter Ueberroth former commissioner of Major League Baseball, and currently Chairman of the Contrarian Group, Inc.

In his first twenty years, Mr. Dohrmann was Chairman of a public institution heading up global investment firms, supervising thousands of licensed professionals operating in fourteen countries. Berny sold his firm to take care of his terminally ill father and later finished the brain research he and Berny started, thus creating a product known as Super Teaching. Super Teaching is showcased during CEO Space’s weeklong business forum, 5 times a year.

Mr. Dohrmann resides with his wife September and two children in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

Paget L. Alves is the President of the Business Markets Group (BMG) for Sprint Nextel. He is responsible for all of Sprints sales and marketing to enterprise, general business and public sector customers. The Business Markets Groups portfolio of services includes IP, international wireless and wireline and domestic 3G and 4G wireless. As part of his BMG responsibilities, Paget also oversees the development of strategic alliances for Sprint.

Prior to his current position, Alves was the President of Sales & Distribution for Sprint Nextel. Previously, he served as President - South Region for Sprint, with responsibility for managing the P&L, all sales and distribution channels and local marketing programs in an 11-state region.

Alves has more than 20 years of experience with technology companies. In addition to his Sprint career, he has served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Internet telephony services provider PointOne Telecommunications, Inc., President & Chief Operating Officer of Centennial Communications and Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Murata Business Systems, Inc. He began his career as an attorney with IBM.

His business and professional affiliations include his current role as a member of the Board of Directors of Herman Miller, Inc., a global provider of office furniture.

In November of 2008, Alves was recognized for his leadership and success in business and community endeavors with the CareerFOCUS Eagle Award, presented by the National Eagle Leadership Institute.

Alves holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School.

Mr. Terry is a registered patent attorney in Florida concentrating exclusively on patent, trademark, copyright and licensing matters. He focuses primarily on the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and international patent and trademark applications, as well as related litigation, including enforcement and defense. In addition, he provides patent infringement and non-infringement opinions and freedom-to-operate assessments.

Mr. Terry is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Intellectual Property Law. Certification is the highest level of recognition by The Florida Bar of the competency and experience of attorneys in the areas of law approved for certification by the Supreme Court of Florida.

Mr. Terry started his career as a software engineer for the engineering firm of Trident Systems in the Washington D.C. area. For over four years, Mr. Terry researched and developed numerous software applications for the Army, Navy and Department of Defense in a wide variety of areas, including requirements engineering, traceability, situational awareness, neural networks, target recognition, trajectory paths and high fidelity simulations. He developed software on an assortment of platforms, including Windows, Unix and Linux and in a range of programming languages, including C++, Pascal, Fortran 77, and Visual Basic.

Mr. Terry continued his career as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He was a member of Technology Center 2700 and examined patent applications for a wide range of technologies including database access, data storage, database management systems and data display methods. As a Patent Examiner, Mr. Terry graduated from first year Examiner training at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Academy. While at the USPTO, Mr. Terry worked on multiple controversial and high profile cases, including patent applications related to Y2K solutions and Amazon patent applications.

Michael A. Rouleau serves as Senior Vice President – Business Development and Strategy and has been with tw telecom since November 1999. His extensive experience in the telecom and data communications industries resulted in the successful implementation and delivery of many advanced and innovative products. In his current position, Mr. Rouleau is responsible for developing tw telecom’s strategic direction and integrating new services and technologies over the next several years. Prior to joining the company, he spent 15 years with US WEST where he was responsible for the development, deployment and management of data, Internet, and DSL businesses.

Sir Terence Matthews is the founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover, an investment vehicle and holding company. Terry has either founded or funded over 80 companies since 1972 including Newbridge Networks, a company he founded in 1986 and which became a leader in the worldwide data networking industry. In 1972, before launching Newbridge, Terry co-founded Mitel, a world leader in the design and manufacture of enterprise communications solutions. Wesley Clover now has interests in a broad range of next-generation technology companies, real estate, hotels and resorts.

In addition to being the Chairman of Wesley Clover, Terry is also Chairman or Director of a number of private and publicly traded companies.

Terry holds an honours degree in electronics from the University of Wales and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 1994, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and in the 2001 Queens Birthday Honours, he was awarded a Knighthood. In 2011, he was appointed Patron of the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute.

Mr. Gates currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Xirrus. He brings more than 15 years of executive management experience to Xirrus as well as a track record of success evolving a high-tech startup into a world class, publicly traded company. Having founded Xircom, Inc. in 1988 on the premise of delivering Ethernet connectivity to mobile computers, he attracted venture funding from Greylock, grew the company to 2,000 employees, and achieved revenues of $500M and a market cap in excess of $2B.

During his tenure as Chairman and CEO, Mr. Gates led Xircom into the wireless arena through partnerships and acquisitions that positioned the company to deliver mobility solutions based on IEEE 802.11, GPRS and BlueTooth technologies. He subsequently negotiated the sale of Xircom to Intel Corp. in March of 2001.

Mr. Gates holds a BSEE from California State University at Northridge and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Fred DuFresne is an inventor and entrepreneur with expertise in software, intellectual property and technical medicine. He holds more than a dozen patents around the world.

In 1994, Fred invented the technology behind server-side scripting in web sites and his company WebMate Technologies was subsequently awarded US Patent 5835712. By early 2000, WebMate Technologies had dissolved and Fred was able to re-acquire the ‘712 patent during a court-ordered auction.

Fred began to defend his patent rights and filed actions in US Federal District Court against a number of large companies, including Microsoft, Allaire Corp., Adobe, Macromedia and others. He also filed actions in the Canadian courts on similar grounds. The last of these actions was successfully settled in 2010.

Today, this technology can be found in Microsoft’s ASP framework, Oracle’s JSP platforms and all “open source” PHP and LAMP based products. Worldwide, server-side scripting technology can now be found on eight out of every ten web sites.

Fred also has extensive experience in the healthcare and medical device fields. In particular, he developed cancer treatment regimen administrative support tools, drug interaction detection systems and an intravenous device selector. Fred was the principal inventor for US patent 6012034, titled System and method for selecting an intravenous device.” This technology is now incorporated in most patient care systems.

Fred has received significant industry accolades, including the following:

•Network Computing Editor’s Choice Award
•Named One of the most influential people on the Internet by Interactive Week
•Recognized by the Open Invention Network as a Distinguished Inventor for his development of server-side scripting.

In 1974, Fred became the youngest instructor in Data Processing for Johnson and Wales University in Providence, where he received an award from the student-led Data Processing Association for dedication to the department

Fred has also spoken and written about the early web extensively. His published work includes: “The Internet and Your Business - Making Money on the Superhighway (1994) and Providing Public Services on the Superhighway (1995).

Fred founded and developed numerous companies including Interactive Systems, Inc. in 1976, Knowledge Based Technologies, WebMate Technologies and iNET911.com, Inc. in the 1990’s and the Canadian company CeriNet in 2002.

He currently serves on the advisory board of Augme Technologies Inc., the leading company in mobile marketing. He is also an advisor to the ipCapital Licensing Company, based in Vermont.

Fred holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with Honors from Boston State College.

He spent his early years as an active Boy Scout and earned his Eagle in 1966. A Massachusetts native, Fred now lives in Virginia.

Todd L. Juneau of Juneau Partners has over 16 years’ experience as Registered Patent Attorney in private practice and has specialized expertise in the areas of patent prosecution, building of domestic and international patent portfolios, analyzing patent positions and validity, particularly in the telecommunication, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries, and providing advice to corporations and universities regarding patent matters. Mr. Juneau has been involved in negotiating hundreds of deals on behalf of clients during his career.

Mr. Juneau has written, filed, and managed over 360 U.S. patent applications and over 1200 international applications for large corporations, start-up companies, major universities, and medical schools from around the world. Mr. Juneau has been a partner at a Washington, D.C. patent & trademark law firm and has represented Fortune 500 corporations from France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Mr. Juneau has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in Federal District Court including actions for patent infringement, defense against patent infringement, Section 337 trade-related patent infringement, trademark infringement, and breach of trade secrets. Mr. Juneau has been admitted to the District Court for the District of Columbia, the Florida Southern District Court, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Mr. Juneau is licensed to practice In the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Illinois, before the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, PTO Board of Patent Appeals, and PTO Board of Trademark Appeals. Mr. Juneau received a Juris Doctorate in 1995 from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, a B.S./B.A. Microbiology in 1991 from The University of Minnesota, and is currently enrolled in the The George Mason University graduate engineering program for a M.S. Telecommunications & Computer Engineering.

Mark Hewitts Summary CEO at MetroCore Holdings, LLC

Also -Chief Technology Officer at EcoSystem Partners, LLC and Partner at NextBendWinner of the (2010) “Who’s Who” Business leader of the year where has distinguished his 30 year career in business and technology with numerous awards for product innovation; Mark has a passion applying his physics background to everyday business and technology; working to apply this experience to economics where it brings focus on achieving a sustainable future.

Today he is focused on expanding the framework created by the MetroCore which is a business and technology protocol designed to aid in the planning, engineering, modeling, construction, and long term operations of sustainable systems. The MetroCore framework provides developers, engineers, architects, and planners with the tools necessary to model complex systems. Then once built the MetroCore provides systems designed to manage and operate Smart Cities and Building Systems.

William (Bill) Geary – MPGL VP Business Development at MPEG LA, where he is responsible for identifying, organizing, and facilitating new patent pools for licensing by the company. For more than fifteen years he has been involved in the formation and operation of patent pools in a wide variety of technologies. Before joining MPEG LA, Mr. Geary was General Patent Counsel in the Samsung Electronics Washington, DC office where he handled worldwide patent licensing and litigation for eleven years and negotiated hundreds of patent license agreements and directed dozens of litigations in the U.S. and overseas.

Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Geary worked as an electrical engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute and Harris Corporation. He has degrees in law, electrical engineering, and an MBA.MPEG LA, LLC operates as a licensing administrator. It offers alternative technology licenses, which enable users to acquire worldwide patent rights necessary for a technology standard or platform from multiple patent holders in a single transaction as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses. MPEG was founded in 1996 is based in Denver, Colorado. The company has locations in Washington, District of Columbia; Greenwood Village, Colorado; Chevy Chase, Maryland; London, the United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; and Shanghai, China

Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network (OIN), the company formed by IBM, Novell, NEC, Philips, Red Hat and Sony to protect Linux. In this capacity he spearheads the company’s efforts to leverage its intellectual property portfolio, and the growing Linux ecosystem it fosters, to stifle businesses and organizations that try to slow or harm Linux growth and development.

Prior to joining the Open Invention Network, Mr. Bergelt served as president and CEO of two Hedge Funds – Paradox Capital and IPI – formed to unlock the considerable asset value of patents, trademarks and copyrights in middle market companies. Paradox and IPI were the first Funds of their kind to offer specialty lending products supported exclusively by intellectual property. Driven by Mr. Bergelt’s creativity and entrepreneurial approach, these funds enabled the emergence of patents, trademarks and copyrights as a viable source of collateral in asset-based loans, forever reshaping the emerging IP Finance landscape.

Ms. Rucinski started her career flying C-141 Starlifters for the USAF. While a reservist for the USAF, Minolta used her talents for sales and marketing attaining over 300% of quota holding the title of #1 in Sales/Marketing making a name for Minolta in a competitive world of Xerox for 11 years.

In 1996, Ms. Rucinski was asked to program manage and build a network of 26 offices while creating a virtual data center. Ms. Rucinski found her niche.

Since then she has been instrumental in deploying, satellite networks into local communities in countries where there were not any form of communications contacted by the oil companies and the United Nations. SRE and Ms. Rucinski’ s engagements have included include teleports, undersea cables dry and wet builds- with over 200 hundred in-country gateways for voice and data.

Domestically she has be the lead on implementing RFID, Content, VOIP, WiMAX, Video, DATA, Dark Fiber and Glass for Conduit builds, she was a purveyor of the Spoke-N-Hub technologies from Central office infrastructure to the last mile for several different Tier one Carriers, CLEC and rural Telco’s today.

She has been the catalyst of over 260 contracts for carriers and resellers for the last 15 years attaining upwards of over 300 million in revenue directly related to her efforts on behalf of the carriers. She has supported carries from Wiltel, Williams, Bell Canada, AT&T, AGC, Loral, IMRSAT, Intelsat, SOS, Global Crossing, ICG and many other Tier 2 and 3 providers. SaskTel, Vodaphone, Congolese Wireless, Digicel.

Before lean cost management and hidden assets became buzz words, Ms. Rucinski was working with large enterprise accounts and carriers to implement algorithms and data analytics not yet a SAS software. She has fulfilled cost saving methodologies in many carrier networks for carriers customers including Home Depo, American Airlines. Clients have engaged SRE and Ms. Rucinski for many outsourced business development projects, all very diverse in nature, all telecom related.

Recently in the last 2 years Ms. Rucinski has been asked to evaluate, review and take action on 7 patents for the inventors and holders of the patents. Those engagements were met with swift responses having to use resources from the USTPO office and various engineering and legal firms.

Hence, developing this challenging yet needed Event- Synopsis of IP/Patent Telecom Sourcing “SUITS”.

While those early years of aeronautical engineering have allowed her to be an early adopter of many mobile, wired and app’s technologies, it has allowed SRE to thrive in Telecom industry. SRE and Ms. Rucinski’ s accomplishments encompass over 50 contracts in 20 years, making her a unique catalyst, successfully engaging out of the box thinking, a process layered with years of experience. SRE looks forward to making a success of every opportunity presented to her and her staff.