Primary Job Title Managing Director Primary Organization IP Checkups
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Irving Rappaport is a member of the board of advisors at InventionShare and a managing director at IP Checkups, Inc. Irving Rappaport has been a licensed patent attorney for over 40 years. He headed the IP departments of five Fortune 500 companies – Apple, Medtronic, National Semiconductor, Data General and Bally Manufacturing – as well as founding
2 patent analytics startups.
In 1992, Irving co-founded SmartPatents, which later became Aurigin Systems, a pioneer in the field legal software, for patent landscaping and analytics. In 2004, Irv and Matthew co-founded IP Checkups.
Irving serves as an expert witness in IP-related litigation, representing plaintiffs in the i4i v. Microsoft; Wi-LAN v. Acer et al, v. RIM et al, v. Westech et al; and Cornell University v. HP cases. Since 2009, Irving has been selected as a member of the IAM Strategy 300, a list of the world’s leading IP strategists.
