Microsoft's Chief Patent Strategist, Deputy General Counsel for IP Marshall Phelps

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News & Chronology

• 2006-12-07 Speech at IP Summit 06, Brussels

• 2004-08-02 MSNBC: Marshall Phelps: "I'm not running a litigation shop, I'm running a licensing shop." (Slashdot discussion)

• 2003-12-09 MS publishes FAT patents licensing program, Phelps comments

• 2003-11 Phelps outlines MS patent strategy, criticises EU Parliament

• 2003-06-xx hired by Microsoft
• 2000-2002 Spencer Trask Intellectual Capital Company
• 1972-2000 IBM, ultimately vice-president for IP and licensing
• !PhD at Cornell Law School
• Master of science, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• History undergraduate, Muskingum College

Outline

• chief patent strategist of Microsoft Corporation since 2003, immediately embarked on building a "reasonable & non-discriminatory" (= uniform licence fee only UFO) portfolio licensing strategy, aimed at turning Microsoft's patent department into a profit center and excluding free/opensource software while avoiding antitrust charges

• before that in charge of building IBM's patent strategy,
• referred to as "father of the IBM tax"

• Website: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/mphelps/default.mspx