Alexander I. Poltorak

Alexander I. Poltorak (born 1957) is a Russian-born American author, entrepreneur, physicist and scholar. He co-authored two books on intellectual property: Essentials of Intellectual Property and Essentials of Licensing of Intellectual Property, both published by John Wiley & Sons. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of General Patent Corporation (GPC), an intellectual property firm focusing on patent licensing and enforcement. He is also the founder and President of American Innovators for Patent Reform, a non-profit trade association representing inventors and other stakeholders in the debate over the future of the U.S. patent system.

Alexander I. Poltorak
Born1957
Krasnodar, Russia
EducationTheoretical Physics, Kuban State University
OccupationCEO of General Patent Corporation, Managing Director of IP Holdings LLC, President of American Innovators for Patent Reform
Notable work
Essentials of Intellectual Property, Essentials of Licensing Intellectual Property
Websitehttp://www.poltorak.com/

Early life

Alexander I. Poltorak was born in 1957 in Krasnodar, Russia, the former Soviet Union. He earned a graduate degree in Theoretical Physics – the equivalent of a Ph.D. in the United States – at Kuban State University (Kubanski Gosudarstvennyi Universitet). He devoted his academic studies to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and gravitation. Poltorak published several research papers in this field and wrote his doctoral thesis on a solution to a long-standing “energy problem” in The Theory of General Relativity.

He left for the United States, and served as an assistant professor of biomathematics at Cornell University Medical College, where he conducted research on mathematical modeling of brain-flow circulation and on positron emission tomography. He also served as an assistant professor of physics at Touro College and as an adjunct professor of law at the Globe Institute of Technology. Poltorak served as the United States co-chair of a Subcommittee on Information Exchange of the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council.

General Patent Corporation
Main article: General Patent Corporation

In 1983 Poltorak founded Rapitech Systems, Inc., a computer technology company he took public in 1986. In 1987, he formed Poltorak Associates, a patent licensing company and a predecessor of General Patent Corporation (GPC) which was incorporated in 1989.[1] GPC was selected by Marketing Computers Magazine as one of “Nine for the Nineties” – one of the nine most promising technology companies for the 90s.[2] Dr. Poltorak serves as Chairman and CEO of General Patent Corporation.

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Books
  • Essentials of Intellectual Property - First Edition, Alexander I. Poltorak and Paul J. Lerner (John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc., 2002)
  • Essentials of Licensing Intellectual Property, Alexander I. Poltorak and Paul J. Lerner (John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc., 2003)
  • Making Innovation Pay: People Who Turn IP Into Shareholder Value, Ed. B. Berman (John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc., 2006)
  • Essentials of Intellectual Property - Second Edition, Alexander I. Poltorak and Paul J. Lerner (John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Inc., 2011)

References
  1. "Patents; Licensing boutiques help inventors with patent claims against big companies (Teresa Riordan, New York Times, June 10, 2002)
  2. ""Poltorak's Business Incubator" (Donna Tapellini, Marketing Computers, Dec. 1989, p. 29)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
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