{"252711":{"#nid":"252711","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar: The Critical Role Intellectual Property Plays in a Knowledge Economy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mr. Scott M. Frank, President and CEO \u2013 AT\u0026amp;T Intellectual Property\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Scott Frank was named president \u0026amp; CEO of AT\u0026amp;T Intellectual Property in March of 2007 following the December 2006 merger of AT\u0026amp;T and BellSouth, where he had previously been the president of Intellectual Property.\u0026nbsp;Scott joined BellSouth in 1998 and led the effort in forming the BellSouth Intellectual Property companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen Mr. Frank started in 1998, BellSouth had less than 50 patents issued in its first 14 years and had not proactively marketed its IP.\u0026nbsp;At the time of the merger, BellSouth Intellectual Property had more than 1000 patents, had been recognized by \u003Cem\u003EBusinessWeek\u003C\/em\u003E for the significant value of their patent portfolio, and had added over a half billion dollars to BellSouth\u2019s bottom-line from its IP marketing efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 2007, Mr. Frank has led the building of a corporate-wide innovation program called The Innovation Pipeline, also known as TIP, which uses crowdsourcing to get innovative ideas from employees corporate-wide implemented quickly by AT\u0026amp;T.\u0026nbsp;His IP organization has also grown the patent portfolio significantly to approximately 10,000 patents worldwide, and has successfully licensed and sold patents, trademarks and copyrighted technology to add hundreds of millions of dollars to AT\u0026amp;T\u2019s bottom line.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Frank is a member of the Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Owners Assoc., where he is former Chair of the Corporate IP Management Committee; Chair of the Georgia State University Law School\u2019s Intellectual Property Advisory Board; member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation; member of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC 15) and former Chair of the State Bar of Georgia\u2019s Intellectual Property Law Section.\u0026nbsp;He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Mary Hall Freedom House, an organization that helps and rehabilitates women with substance abuse and domestic violence problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining AT\u0026amp;T\/BellSouth, Mr. Frank practiced intellectual property law in Atlanta at Troutman Sanders LLP for seven years.\u0026nbsp;Prior to Troutman Sanders, he was an electrical engineer with Nortel for five years, and a computer systems analyst with AT\u0026amp;T for two years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Frank received his bachelor\u0027s in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and his law degree and master\u0027s in business from Georgia State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is married with four children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2013-11-08 17:32:57","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:23:53","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-11-11T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-11-11T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-11-11T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-11-11 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-11-11 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-11-11 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epaul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}