private industry intellectual property founded 1987 incorporated 1989 headquarters suffern new york usa key people alexander i. poltorak chairman & ceo michael shanahan vice president & general counsel alec schibanoff vice president of marketing kathlene ingham director of licensing advisory board of directors bruce lehman jack granowitz products patent licensing and enforcement intellectual property consulting and advisory services intellectual property brokerage subsidiaries acticon technologies llc advanced card technologies llc digital technology licensing llc leighton technologies llc ryogen llc slogan we create wealth from your wealth of ideas website www.generalpatent.com general patent corporation gpc is an intellectual property ip firm headquartered in suffern new york 1 that provides patent licensing and enforcement on a contingency basis . gpc also provides ip advisory services including strategy management patent portfolio mining patent triage technology transfer and other ip related services . according to steven m. cherry from the ieee spectrum gpc is perhaps one of the oldest and most successful patent enforcement companies . the company remains privately held since 1987 when it was founded by alexander poltorak to assist inventors and ip owners in licensing and enforcing their ip rights . 1 the company was incorporated in 1989 . since 1996 gpci now gpc 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 . 2 all defendants settled by taking a license under the patents . in 2000 gpci spun off the smart connector business into a wholly owned subsidiary acticon technologies llc . 3 to date after winning patent reexamination proceeding at the uspto and successfully litigating 26 patent infringement lawsuits gpci licensed the acticon smart connector patents to more than 150 companies . 4 gpci successfully represented moen technologies llc in its litigation against the coca cola company 5 and pepsico ; 6 forward technologies llc vs. sbc communications ; 7 scieran technologies inc. vs. bausch & lomb ; 8 trounson automation llc vs. yaskawa et al. 9 leighton technologies llc vs. oberthur 10 and many other patent infringement cases . the idea incubator was spun off in 2000 as ip holdings llc which later became the financial arm of gpc . in the 2007 2009 period at & t sony ericsson nokia lg motorola t mobile and samsung all settled patent infringement lawsuits and agreed to license a key cellphone patent from digital technology licensing llc a subsidiary of gpc . 11 references edit a b licensing boutiques help inventors with patent claims against big companies . new york times by teresa riordan june 10 2002 motorola named in patent suit filed by general patent corporation international . 1 2 general patent is successful in its 20th litigation to enforce acticon s patents ; general patent is successful in its 21st litigation to enforce acticon s patents ; general patent is successful in its 23rd litigation to enforce acticon s patents. ; general patent is successful in litigation to enforce smart connector patents moen technologies settles its patent suit against coca cola . general patent scores a new victory in its latest patent enforcement campaign ; moen technologies settles its patent suit against coca cola . lycos retriever search results for pepsico general patent settles with telephone companies on behalf of forward technologies ; general patent scores a new victory in its latest patent enforcement campaign ; forward technologies settles its patent suit against pacific bell and sbc communications ; general patent corporation scores a patent enforcement victory as forward technologies settles suit against pacific bell and sbc communications ; general patent settles with telephone companies on behalf of forward technologies . scieran technologies settles law suit with bausch & lomb . trounson automation settles lawsuit with yaskawa electric general patent corporation represented trounson automation in this transaction usdcdata.com nysd white plains 7 04 cv 02496 leighton technologies llc v. oberthur card systems s.a one patent company snags deal with at & t ee times by rick merritt 03 11 2008 external links edit general patent corporation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title general patent corporation & oldid 719790987 categories companies established in 1987companies based in new yorkprivately held companies based in new york navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 may 2016 at 20 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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