Kurt Becker has worked for a startup company for 2 years, handling business transactions. Prior to that, he served in several Chief Counsel positions at Intellectual Ventures from 2006-2013.

While at IV, Kurt was involved in well over 1000 patent purchases and designed creative structures for acquisitions. He performed legal work on deal teams that closed more than $2 billion in licensing deals. Kurt also supervised and helped negotiate divestitures of IV patent assets to both patent holding companies and leading technology companies.

Prior to joining IV, Kurt was a partner in the Licensing and Technology business transactions group at Perkins Coie. Joined Perkins Coie in 1986.

AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell in areas of Business Law, Intellectual Property, and Internet Law by Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rating Education

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Education

J.D. University of Michigan Law School, 1986, cum laude.

A.B. (Economics) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981, magna cum laude, with distinction in economics, and Phi Beta Kappa.