Mark Kurisko

Mark first joined IPValue in 2006, although Mark left IPValue from 2014 to 2020 to serve as the Vice President of Licensing at Sound View Innovations. Overlapping with his time at IPValue and Sound View, Mark also served for several years as the litigation trustee for the Multimedia Patent Trust, a portfolio of patents developed at Bell Labs. Mark has over 30 years of experience in intellectual property law, licensing, patent prosecution and litigation.

Prior to joining IPValue, Mark worked as Corporate Counsel for nearly a decade at Lucent Technologies and its semiconductor spin-off Agere Systems. During his time working for IPValue, Sound View, Lucent and Agere, Mark’s work included assertion and litigation-based licensing activities, patents sales, patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio development, litigation management, and negotiation and preparation of licensing agreements. Before his time at Lucent, Mark worked at the patent law firm of Lahive & Cockfield in Boston, Massachusetts. Mark’s work has involved several technologies, including semi-conductor processing and manufacturing equipment, composite materials, wireless communications systems such as cellular and wireless LAN, digital and analog circuitry, computer hardware, digital signal processing, distributed computing and memory management, audio coding, video compression and video streaming.

Mark received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a law degree from Boston University. Mark is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.