Via Licensing Alliance Appoints Three New Members to its Board of Directors
02 Maio 2023 - 09:30AM
Via Licensing Alliance LLC (Via LA), the collaborative licensing
leader, announced today the appointment of three new members to its
Board of Directors: Patrick Patnode, President of GE Licensing, an
affiliate of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE); Jako Eleveld,
Vice President and Head of IP Licensing at Koninklijke Philips N.V.
(NYSE: PHG); and Keiko Higuchi, Senior Manager and Head of Patent
Pools in the Corporate Licensing Division of the Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation (TSE: 6503). Their appointment follows the
conversion of partial ownership in MPEG LA to an ownership stake in
Via LA by affiliates of GE, Philips, and Mitsubishi Electric in
connection with the recent combination of Via Licensing Corporation
and MPEG LA, L.L.C.
“I’m delighted to welcome Patrick, Jako, and Keiko to the Via LA
Board,” said Andy Sherman, Chair of Via LA’s Board of Directors.
“They have a track record of intellectual property leadership, deep
industry expertise, and relationships throughout the global IP
ecosystem that will add significant value for Via LA.”
Via LA is an industry solution that will enable collaborative
innovation and benefit the entire global IP ecosystem of licensors
and licensees. The new appointees will help the Via LA Board
oversee the fulfillment of that mission.
About Patrick PatnodeMr. Patnode serves as
President of GE Licensing, leading a team of global licensing
professionals focused on creating value from GE’s extensive
portfolio of intellectual property. Under Mr. Patnode’s leadership,
GE Licensing has expanded beyond traditional patent licensing to
offer solutions to help partners access GE’s 40,000+ patents, and
the inventions that come from GE’s Global Research Centers and
across GE’s Business Units of GE Aerospace, GE Vernova, and GE
Corporate.
About Jako EleveldMr. Eleveld serves as Vice
President and Head of IP Licensing at Philips and has been on the
executive management team of Philips Intellectual Property &
Standards (IP&S) for almost 15 years. Philips IP&S is a
leading industrial IP organization that handles all IP matters for
Philips. As Head of IP Licensing, Mr. Eleveld leads a successful
global team that develops new standards and technology based on
Philips IP for various industries, and handles all related IP
licensing and IP venturing for Philips.
About Keiko HiguchiMs. Higuchi serves as Senior
Manager and Head of Patent Pools in the Corporate Licensing
Division of the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Ms. Higuchi brings
to the Board of Via LA more than two decades of industry experience
and expertise leading intellectual property licensing and
transactional initiatives on behalf of Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation. Prior to her role at Mitsubishi Electric, she held
leadership positions at Renesas Electronics Corporation, as well as
Megachips Corporation, where she gained extensive knowledge of
licensing and IP transactions in the semiconductor industry.
About Via Licensing AllianceVia LA is the
collaborative licensing leader, dedicated to accelerating global
technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return
on innovation with balanced licensing solutions for innovators and
manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via LA has operated
dozens of licensing programs for a variety of technologies
consisting of nearly 50,000 patents in over 130 countries with more
than 500 patent holders and nearly 10,000 licensees. Via LA is an
independently managed subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., owned
by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual
property licensing leadership. For more information about Via LA,
please visit www.Via-LA.com.
For additional information about the formation of Via LA, please
see the press release: Via Licensing and MPEG LA Unite to Form Via
Licensing Alliance, the Largest Patent Pool Administrator in the
Consumer Electronics Industry, available here.
ContactVia LALiz
Weber415-645-4124Press@Via-LA.com
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