Ron Laurie
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | IP Investment Banking |
| Location | Palo Alto, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I am Managing Director of Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC, an intellectual property investment bank based in Silicon Valley which I co-founded in 2004. Inflexion Point represents technology companies and institutional investors in the acquisition and sale of patent portfolios having strategic value and in the sourcing and execution of IP-intensive corporate transactions. I have worked in Silicon Valley for over forty years, initially 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 I have taught at Stanford and Boalt (UC-Berkeley) law schools. I was a founding partner of the Silicon Valley offices of Skadden Arps (in 1998) Weil Gotshal (in 1991) and Irell and Manella (in 1988). The focus of my prior legal practice was on the strategic use of IP assets in complex business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, technology spin-outs, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, and I led IP teams in some of the largest technology deals ever done, worth over $50 billion in the aggregate. I am a registered patent attorney. |