Mr. Specht is a director in the Electronics Group with a unique combination of over twenty years of telecommunications and Internet-related technical, legal, and business development experience. He specializes in helping clients understand, manage and leverage the intersection of emerging technology, and law and regulation, as it impacts business and investment strategy. In particular, he develops and prosecutes patent applications, conducts intellectual property audits and counsels clients on the development and implementation of intellectual asset management plans to maximize the economic potential of their intellectual property. Additionally, he works with clients to establish reexamination strategies, develop reexamination requests to challenge the validity of existing patents and implements concurrent reexaminations in conjunction with patent litigations.
His primary areas of technical experience include telecommunications networks, broadband communication systems, wireless communications, GPS location-based services, Signaling System 7, VoIP, communications protocols, e-commerce and Internet applications, and nanotechnology.
Prior to joining the firm, he co-founded and served as President and General Counsel of a company providing high speed Internet services and e-services through a private label Internet portal to apartment communities. He led the company's efforts to secure venture capital and debt financing, managed legal affairs and directed the technology team. He also has served as Senior Engineer in the Common Carrier Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. He began his career as an electrical engineer at Bell Communications Research where he developed switching system technical requirements, conducted field performance analysis, led multi-disciplinary network operations reviews of the local telephone company networks and co-managed the SS7 product. He has also provided intellectual property and regulatory counseling to numerous technology start-up companies while at a consulting group and law firm.
Mr. Specht was formerly on the technical advisory board of a major venture capital group. He also served on the board of directors of a for-profit corporation, and as Chairman of the board of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY), a non-profit that provides leadership programs for students across the World. Currently, Mr. Specht serves on the Advisory Board for the Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal, on The Reexamination Center Editorial Board, and on the Board of Governors for the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership organization. In 2008, he earned the Certified Licensing Professional designation from the Licensing Executive Society (LES).
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