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| Education: |
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL, J.D., CUM LAUDE, 1983 |
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PH.D., 1979 |
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, B.S., 1975 |
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| Bar Admissions: |
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08/22/1983 NEW YORK |
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06/07/1984 NEW JERSEY |
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| Court Admissions: |
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1984 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, NEW JERSEY |
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1984 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, NEW YORK, EASTERN DISTRICT |
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1984 U.S. DISTRICT COURT, NEW YORK, SOUTHERN DISTRICT |
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REGISTERED TO PRACTICE BEFORE THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, 1982 |
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| Biography:
Kenneth Rubenstein is Co-Chair of the Patent Practice and Partner in the New York office. Ken is also a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and a former member of the legal staff at Bell Laboratories. While there are numerous patent law groups at various firms, Ken and his group distinguish themselves from competitors by being able to deal with very sophisticated technology.
Ken has been employed in the patent field since 1979, first as a trainee, then as a registered Patent Agent and starting in 1983 as an attorney. He has extensive experience in patent litigation, patent procurement, licensing, and technology transfer especially in high technology fields such as telecommunications, computers, networking, optics, audio processing, video-processing, semiconductors. His most significant activity since 1993 has been working on patent pools related technical standards, and in particular, patent evaluations for such pools.
Patent Pools
We have served as independent patent evaluators for the patent pools listed below. The approximate start date for our work is also indicated. For all of these pools, we are responsible for conducting evaluations to determine whether patents are essential to a particular technical standard.
Pools Administered by MPEGLA LLC
| MPEG-2 |
(1993) |
| MPEG-4 Visual |
(2000) |
| MPEG-4 Systems |
(2000) |
| IEEE 1394 (Firewire) |
(1999) |
| AVC (H.264) |
(2002) |
| DVB-T |
(1999) |
Other Pools
| 6C DVD |
(1998) |
| 4C DVD |
(1997) |
We are also serving as independent patent evaluators for the following programs in development by MPEGLA LLC.
| Digital Rights Management |
(2003) |
| VC-1 |
(2004) |
| ATSC |
(2004) |
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