Kapu Kumar

Kapu brings 17 years of experience as a licensing expert at companies, ranging from Agere Systems, Lucent and AT&T, to her role at IPVALUE.

During her career, she has generated in over $350 M for these companies based upon the Bell Labs IP portfolio. Most recently, she led the Agere intellectual property team, overseeing licensing agreements which resulted in over $135 million in royalty revenue for the company. At Lucent, she led various technology licensing programs for Bell Labs Research in the areas of semiconductors, speech and video technologies, and optical media. Kapu also served at AT&T where she was instrumental in growing licensing revenues; negotiating partner agreements; and developing business plans for markets in the United States and overseas. Prior to her licensing career, Kapu worked as an engineer at AT&T for five years.

Kapu holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester.

Favorite Inventions of All Time:

Internet Cell Phone Dishwasher

Dallas R. Martin

Dallas Martin joined IPVALUE in January 2006. An attorney with over twenty-five years of legal and business experience, Dallas has created and led intellectual property management programs at Fortune 500 companies, high-tech startups and research facilities, and has extensive background in technology commercialization and business development.

Prior to joining IPVALUE, Dallas was vice president and intellectual property counsel at Level 3 Communications. In this position, he was responsible for establishing a corporate-wide IP program that included extensive patent prosecution, litigation, licensing, trademark portfolio management, and M&A due diligence activities. Prior to Level 3, Dallas was vice president, general counsel and secretary at SwitchPoint Networks, a venture-backed firm that successfully commercialized a patented last-mile communications technology.

Dallas was also senior intellectual property counsel at First Data Corporation; under his leadership, First Data's patent portfolio grew 40-fold. Dallas also served as director of the intellectual property program at U S WEST Advanced Technologies, Inc. (now Qwest Communications). While there, he led cross-company teams that set the value of intellectual property assets and developed several large-scale licensing programs. He was recognized for his leadership in the valuation of the company's IT organization prior to its spin-off from the parent company.

Dallas established the first technology transfer office at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a U. S. Department of Energy research facility, and also served as in-house counsel at Precision Visuals, a graphics software firm, and Midwest Research Institute, a contract R&D laboratory.

Dallas holds a bachelor of arts in philosophy and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Kansas. He is a frequent speaker on intellectual property management.

Favorite Inventions of All Time:

"SecurID" Token Holography Voice-Over-IP

George Park

George joined IPVALUE in July 2005. Prior to IPVALUE, George was a Managing Scientist at Exponent, a national science and engineering consulting firm, where he managed the Menlo Park branch of the Technology Development practice. In that role, he led a number of national security related projects involving robotics, sensors, wireless communications, and biometrics technologies.

George also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he provided leadership to develop corporate strategy on a wide range of issues, such as the identification of IP acquisition targets for an enterprise software vendor, development of a new product line for a portable IT hardware manufacturer, and formulation of a growth strategy for a major networking company.

Earlier in his career, George served as a Senior Scientist for Arete Associates and a founder of MPPY, a UCLA-based consulting team. He also served as an Analyst at the RAND Corporation, a think tank conducting high level policy and technology analyses for government and commercial clients.

George holds an MBA from UCLA and a PhD in Physics from Stanford University.

Favorite Inventions of All Time:

Zero Light Bulb Diaper Genie

Paul J. Riley

Paul Riley joined IPVALUE in May 2004. Paul brings nearly fifteen years of experience touching on all aspects of the patent commercialization process, including: developing and mining patent portfolios; devising and implementing patent licensing strategies; conducting adversarial license discussions; drafting, negotiating and concluding complex intellectual property transactions; and litigating patent cases before juries, judges and arbitrators.

Paul came to IPVALUE from Morrison & Foerster, an international law firm recognized for its expertise in handling intellectual property issues. Paul was a trial lawyer with Morrison & Foerster, specializing in patent litigation for clients in the high-technology, medical device, biotech and consumer electronics industries. During his law firm tenure, Paul represented clients in bench and jury trials, as well as Markman hearings, in federal courts and before the International Trade Commission. Paul also prosecuted patent applications and handled intellectual property-related transactional matters for his clients.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Tulane University and a Juris Doctorate degree from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. He is a member of the United States Patent Bar, and is admitted to practice law in California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

Favorite Inventions of All Time:

Internet Mobile Phone Gene Sequencing