Management Team

Jonathan Barney, Founder and CEO

Jonathan is the founder and CEO of PatentRatings LLC and a Managing Director of Ocean Tomo. As an inventor, lawyer and an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience working with patents and technology, Jonathan provides thought leadership in the areas of quantitative patent analysis, patent capital investment strategies and other strategic initiatives broadly aimed at creating and enhancing market liquidity in patents and related intellectual capital assets. Jonathan is a frequent lecturer on these and other related topics, including, most recently, at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business and before various professional organizations, such as the Licensing Executives Society USA and Canada (LES), Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), the Life Science Industry Council (LINC), Whittier Law School , Wisconsin Bar Association (WBA), Orange County Bar Association (OCBA), Orange County Patent Law Association (OCPLA) and The Orange County Investment Forum (OCIF).

Prior to starting PatentRatings and joining Ocean Tomo, Jonathan was a partner in the Newport Beach, California offices of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, where he specialized in patent prosecution, patent licensing and strategic patent asset management. Jonathan is a registered patent lawyer and a graduate of Virginia Tech University (B.S.M.E. 1987, cum laude) and The University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 1993, cum laude).

Publications

Patents

  4,841,221Position-sensing circuit
5,099,193Remotely controllable power control system
5,144,278Variable impedance device and circuit for sensing adjustment thereof
5,237,264Remotely controllable power control system
6,057,498Vibratory string for musical instrument
6,556,992Method and system for rating patents and other intangible assets
6,580,021Vibratory string for musical instrument
6,746,334Play structure with active targeting system
6,761,637Method of game play using RFID tracking device
6,967,566Live-action interactive adventure game
20020137008Endodontic instrument
20030226441Tension regulator for stringed instruments
20040010393Method and system for valuing intangible assets
20040077423Interactive quest game
20050143173Magical wand and interactive play experience
20050266907Systems and methods for providing an interactive game
20060030385Magic-themed adventure game
20060154726Multi-layered interactive play experience
20060229134Interactive challenge game systems and methods
20070066396Retail methods for providing an interactive product to a consumer
20070073748Method and system for probabilistically quantifying and visualizing relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects
20070094297Method of determining an obsolescence rate of a technology
20080014835Apparatus and methods for providing interactive entertainment

Steve Lee, President

Steve Lee is the President of PatentRatings and Managing Director of Ocean Tomo, LLC. The PatentRatings software is the only market-validated data/software platform for objectively assessing patent quality, relative value, due diligence and competitive trends for patents, patent portfolios, companies, and technology sectors. PatentRatings is a software/data division of Ocean Tomo, the leading Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc® firm.

As President of PatentRatings, Mr. Lee has led the development of several PatentRatings products and solutions tailored to PatentRatings' corporate clients. Most of PatentRatings' clients are top 100 global corporations with significant positions in electronics, semi-conductors, telecommunications, aerospace, wireless, and other related technologies.

As a technology entrepreneur and prior to leading PatentRatings, Mr. Lee founded a venture capital backed eCRM Software/e-commerce company and a direct marketing information services company. He has also worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global business strategy consulting company, where he provided business strategies to Global Fortune 1000 companies and personally advised and initiated several global alliances of US, Europe and Asian companies. Prior to working for BCG, Mr. Lee led a multi-disciplinary team of design engineers to produce communications satellites systems at Hughes Aircraft Company. He also published graduate research papers on "Dynamic manufacturing" and "Systems architecting" as a graduate student at USC.

Mr. Lee has spoken at conferences and seminars in the US and abroad on various issues related to Intellectual Property. As an expert on PatentRatings, Corporate Intellectual Property topics, software technologies and new ventures, he has served as a speaker and panelist at LES, IP Markets, WSPLA, COMDEX, CRM conference, Epicor software, Ventana venture event, UC Irvine GSM, Green Ocean Forum, PATINEX, International Conference for IP Service business, and annual Licensing Executive Society events.

Mr. Lee holds a BS in engineering from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Jianming Xing, Director of Database Administration

Jianming is the director of database administration at Ocean Tomo. He brings over ten years of experience in computer application, database administration and database operation.

Prior to joining Ocean Tomo, Jianming was a senior system analyst at a southern California based computer software company, FutureNet Technologies Corporation. While at FutureNet Jianming built and deployed enterprise software solution in the health care industry.

Jianming has worked as a department director at China Hua Yang Technology and Trade Corporation, a state owned company which focused on international technologies and intellectual properties transfer. He also worked as a software engineer at the System Engineering Institute where he designed and developed China Patent Application Management and Maintenance System which was used by China patent law firms. Both Hua Yang Company and System Engineering Institute are based in Beijing.

Jianming received both his BS and MS in computer science from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China and received a MS in computer science from California State University at Fullerton, California.

Matthew Beers, Ph.D., Director of Software Engineering

Dr. Beers specializes in code optimization and portability and complier development. For the past seven years, he has lead development and software engineering efforts in multiple ecommerce organizations.

Dr. Beers received his Masters and Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Publications:

• M. Beers, C. Stork and M. Franz, Efficiently Verifiable Escape Analysis, Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Oslo, Norway, June 14-18, 2004

• M. Franz, W. Amme, M. Beers, N. Dalton, P. H. Fröhlich, V. Haldar, A. Hartmann, P. S. Housel, F. Reig, J. von Ronne, Ch. H. Stork, and S. Zhenochin. "Making Mobile Code Both Safe and Efficient" in J. Lala (ed.), OASIS: Foundations of Intrusion Tolerant Systems. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2003. Pages 337-358?

Kimberly Na, Manager of Client Support

Kimberly is the manager of client support at OTPR. She heads client support by providing necessary training on PatentRatings.com, fulfilling client requested data/analysis, and represent PatentRatings information for corporate client discussion purposes.

Previously, Kimberly was the head of client support at a e-Commerce venture and a business software company where she played an instrumental role in achieving the highest ratings for customer satisfaction.

Prior to working with technology companies, she has held operations management position in an industrial supply company. Kimberly earned her BS degree from the University of California, Irvine.

 

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