Alexander Poltorak

Current

• Managing Director at IP Holdings LLC
• Chairman & CEO at General Patent Corporation

Past

• Adjunct Professor of Law at Globe Institute of Technology
• Assistant Professor of Physics at Touro College
• President & CEO at Rapitech Systems Inc.

• Assistant Professor of Biomathematics at Cornell University Medical College
• Adjunct Research Associate at Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

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Education

• Kubanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet
• Kubanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet

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Alexander Poltorak’s Summary

Intellectual Property executive with substantial experience in patent licensing and enforcement, IP strategy and valuation. Certified Licensing Professional (CLP). Co-author of two books and numerous articles on IP in general and patents in particular. Focus on intellectual property licensing, IP strategy and valuation.

Alexander Poltorak’s Specialties:

IP strategy, patent law, patent enforcement, IP licensing, patent valuation.

Alexander Poltorak’s Experience

• Managing Director

  IP Holdings LLC

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  Manage an IP-centric merchant banking organization and an idea incubator which has over a dozen companies in its portfolio.

• Chairman & CEO

  General Patent Corporation

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  May 1987 — Present (22 years 8 months)

  Lead a premiere IP boutique specializing in IP enforcement on contingency basis. Manage a team of IP attorneys. Oversee patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation. Negotiate licenses and settlements. Strategic Consulting, including IP strategy and management, IP audit and valuation, patent portfolio mining and triage, IP licensing and assertion, international technology transfer.

• Adjunct Professor of Law

  Globe Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  February 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 11 months)

  Taught business law.

• Assistant Professor of Physics

  Touro College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years )

  Taught undergraduate courses in physics and philosophy.

• President & CEO

  Rapitech Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; RPSY; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 1983 — April 1987 (3 years 9 months)

• Assistant Professor of Biomathematics

  Cornell University Medical College

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  October 1982 — June 1985 (2 years 9 months)

  Research in Positron Emission Tomography (PAT), computer imaging and mathematical modeling of blood flow circulation in the brain.

• Adjunct Research Associate

  Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

  (Hospital & Health Care industry)

  1983 — May 1985 (2 years )

  Research in Positron emission tomography (PET) and its application for cancer research

Alexander Poltorak’s Education

• Kubanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet

  Ph.D. , Theoretical Physics , 1980 — 1980

  Dissertation titled "Gauge Theory of Gravitation". Thesis advisor: Prof. Ya. I. Pugatchev.
  
  Stripped off the degrees as a political dissident.

  Activities and Societies:

  State University of Kuban

• Kubanskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet

  M.S. , Physics , 1975 — 1980

  Majored in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

  Activities and Societies:

  V.P. of Student Science Society

Additional Information

Alexander Poltorak’s Interests:

Theoretical physics, classical music, poetry

Alexander Poltorak’s Groups:

Licensing Executives Society, Association of University Technology Managers, Intellectual Property Owners Association, New York Academy of Science, American Physical Society, International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation, American Association for the Advancement of Science

•    Gathering2.0
•    Patent Law Group
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Patents - Intellectual Property
•    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
•    Global Intellectual Property & Business Lawyers
•    Patent Professionals
•    Patent and Intellectual Property Practitioners
•    Licensing Executives Society International
•    Intellectual Property Professionals
•    Intellectual Property, etc.
•    Intellectual Property Services
•    Subject Matter Experts
•    Venture Capital Group
•    Intellectual Property Attorneys Group
•    Inventors
•    Information Technology & Intellectual Property Law Group
•    Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
•    IP Brokers
•    Patent Specialists
•    Patents
•    IP Litigation
•    Patent Litigation
•    Intangible Asset Finance Society - IAFS
•    Intellectual Property Valuation
•    Patent to Profit
•    Intellectual Property Networking Group
•    Patent Monetization (Licensing, Litigation, Transaction & Assertions)
•    Certified Licensing Professionals
•    Canadian IP Litigation
•    The Chief Executive Officer
•    The Chairmen and Chairwomen of the Board
•    The Board of Directors
•    The Global Innovation Leaders

Alexander Poltorak’s Honors:

U.S. Patents awarded: "Method of providing message service for limited access telecommunications", 1999; "Apparatus and method for providing travel information", 2006

Alexander Poltorak’s Contact Settings

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