California

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Matthew Vella is an IAM-300 ranked attorney at Prince Lobel Tye, LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Management Committee and the Co-Chair of its Intellectual Property Practice Group.

He is a co-founder of Invention Capital Associates. Over his 25-year career, Matt has led patent licensing and litigation teams that have generated over a billion dollars in revenues from patent portfolios covering a wide range of technology fields, including artificial intelligence hardware and software, mobile computing, DRAM/FLASH memory, PC architecture, databases, network management, web services, orthopedics, cardiovascular, image processing and graphics, automobile safety, voice/video codec, semiconductors, cell phone GPUs, HDTV, business intelligence and analytics, credit card authentication, and digital rights management. These licensed portfolios include the patents associated with the Palm Pilot device, VoiceAge’s (Université de Sherbrooke) 3GPP voice codec, Renesas Electronics memory chips, Singular Computing’s AI hardware accelerators, Software Tree’s Object Relational Mapping (ORM), Nortel Networks’ voice-over-IP portfolio, and Bay Networks’ data networking portfolio. Licensees under these programs include virtually every major technology company in the world.

Education

  • University of Toronto Law School, J.D., Intellectual Property Law, 1999
  • Carleton University, B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1994

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • California
  • Ontario
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California