Peter Detkin

Peter N. Detkin [ Entry on the [http://des.uspto.gov/OEDCI/ USPTO database of patent attorneys and agents] . Consulted on March 31, 2007] is a managing partner for Intellectual Ventures.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S.E.E. in 1982 and J.D. in 1985. He worked as a patent attorney for Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati of Palo Alto, becoming a partner in 1992.

Following this, he worked as Vice President and assistant general counsel in charge of patents, litigation, licensing and antitrust/competition law for Intel, and later became one of four founders of Intellectual Ventures. (This carries irony, since the company has been described as a "patent troll", and Detkin is said to have coined this as a pejorative term while at Intel.)

He is a member of the bars of California and New York, and licensed to represent inventors before the U.S. Patent Office.

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* [http://www.intellectualventures.com/bio.aspx?id=03a52426-0419-449e-84b3-1f25d9c1d546 Biography on Intellectual Ventures' web site]