General Patent Corporation International
General Patent Corporation International (also known as GPCI) is an Intellectual Property (IP) licensing and enforcement company headquartered in Suffern, New York. GPCI is a private company founded in 1987 by Alexander Poltorak to assist inventors and IP owners in licensing and enforcing their IP rights. GPCI services include assertive licensing and enforcement of patents, trademarks and copyright on a contingency basis.
History
The company, which became General Patent Corporation International, was founded by Alexander Poltorak in 1987 as Poltorak Associates Inc., which engaged in patent licensing and technology transfer. It was incorporated in 1989 as General Patent Corporation (also known as GPC), which became a full service intellectual property management firm. GPC was selected by Marketing Computers Magazine as one of “Nine for the Nineties” – one of nine most promising technology companies for the 90s. The contingency IP enforcement business was spun off as a separate company, General Patent Corporation International in 1996. Since 1996, GPCI has been actively licensing and enforcing a portfolio of “smart connector” patents. In 1997, GPCI filed two patent infringement suits against IBM and U.S. Robotics in the Southern District of New York and Against Hayes and seven modem manufacturers in the Central District of California. In 1998 GPCI sued Motorola. All defendants settled by taking a license under the patents* General Patent Corporation International Settles Patent Suit with IBM
- General Patent Corporation Licenses Patents to 3Com
- General Patent Corporation International Settles Patent Suit with Maxtech and Archtek
- General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Suit With Motorola
- Socket Communications Inc
- General Patent Corporation International Settles Patent Suit With Boca Research
- General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Suit With Smart Modular Technologies.
. In 2000, GPCI spun off the “smart connector” business into a wholly-owned subsidiary, Acticon Technologies LLC. To date, after winning patent reexamination proceeding at the USPTO and successfully litigating 25 patent infringement lawsuits, GPCI has licensed the Acticon “smart connector” patents to 136 companies. GPCI successfully represented Moen Technologies LLC in its litigation against The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo; Forward Technologies LLC vs. SBC Communications; Scieran Technologies, Inc. vs. Bausch & Lomb; Trounson Automation LLC vs. Yaskawa et al., and many other patent infringement cases. The idea incubator was spun off in 2000 as IP Holdings LLC.
Officers of GPCI
- Alexander I. Poltorak — Chairman and CEO
- Paul J. Lerner — Sr. Vice President and General Counsel
Subsidiaries and Affiliates
Acticon Technologies LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPCI.
Other subsidiaries of GPCI include:
- Advanced Card Technologies LLC
- Digital Technology Licensing LLC
- Leighton Technologies LLC
- Ryogen LLC
- IP Holdings LLC
- General Patent Corporation (GPC)
General Patent Corporation
General Patent Corporation (GPC) is an Intellectual Property (IP) management company. GPC services include: IP strategy, IP audit, IP valuation, patent portfolio mining, patent triage, patent portfolio management, patent licensing, technology transfer, and other Intellectual Property related services. According to Steven M. Cherry from the IEEE Spectrum, General Patent Corporation is perhaps one of the oldest and most successful patent enforcement company.
GPC is the consulting arm of General Patent Corporation International.
GPC is headquartered in Suffern, New York.
IP Holdings LLC
IP Holdings LLC is an IP-centric merchant banking organization affiliated with General Patent Corporation International. IP Holdings provides patent brokerage services assisting clients in acquiring or selling patent and other IP assets. IP Holdings operates an idea incubator, which invests in, develops, incubates, and assists in the commercialization of novel and promising technology, with a particular emphasis on the development and protection of intellectual property. The idea incubator, which was started by General Patent Corporation and was featured in 1989 Marketing Computers Magazine’s cover story “Poltorak’s Business Incubator” was spun off from GPC in 2000. IP Holdings’ portfolio companies include: Advanced Card Technologies LLC, Moen Technologies LLC, Leighton Technologies LLC, Digital Technology Licensing LLC, Advanced Video Technologies LLC, Ryogen LLC, Trounson Automation LLC, Interactive Telegames LLC and Home Equity Exchange LLC.
IP Holdings is headquartered in Suffern, New York.
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In the Media
- CBS Evening News. Feb. 24, 2006
- General Patent Corporation Wins Reexamination for Acticon Patents
- Tech Law Journal District Court Addresses Personal Jurisdiction in Patent Litigation, February 16, 2004
- Licensing boutiques help inventors with patent claims against big companies. (New York Times). By Teresa Riordan June 10, 2002