Philip D. Askenazy, Science and Technology Advisor -
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Philip D. Askenazy, Ph.D.Registered Patent Agent (Non-Attorney)
Philip D. Askenazy, Science and Technology AdvisorPhil Askenazy engages in patent preparation, filing, prosecution and analysis, particularly in the areas of materials, optics, semiconductors, chemical engineering, and electro-mechanical devices.He also assists the firm's attorneys in business aspects of intellectual property licensing, technology commercialization, and business planning.
Askenazy graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. in Physics cum laude and received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in Applied Physics.
While in graduate school he was a co-founder of RTP Neural Applications, Inc., where he was responsible for all business aspects of the company, including both financial duties and marketing neural network pattern recognition services to the banking, insurance, and medical industries.
Phil then was Senior Manager at Martin Kurz & Co., Inc.There he introduced a new product line of sintered metallic fluidizing media, and was responsible for product development, manufacturing processes, quality control, design of advertising materials, marketing, sales, and customer support.In addition to his other duties he instituted manufacturing inventory, work-in-progress, and quality control systems.
From 1996 to 2001 Askenazy was Director of Physical Science Technologies at Science & Technology Corporation @ UNM (STC), where he oversaw the patenting and licensing of a portfolio of the hundreds of physical science inventions created at the University of New Mexico, negotiated license, research, and consortia agreements, marketed inventions to potential corporate licensees, directed patent prosecution, and created and implemented technology transfer policies.
He then became STC's first Director, New Ventures, with responsibility for forming startup companies based on UNM technologies, including selecting technologies that were candidates for startup formation, defining the market opportunity and business model, drafting preliminary business plans, conceiving intellectual property strategies and securing intellectual property protection, recruiting senior management, and obtaining seed funding.
Prior to joining Peacock Myers, Phil held the position of Director, Product Management for Concise Logic, Inc., a UNM spinoff that provides specialized software for semiconductor circuit designers.There he drafted product specifications, identified early adopter customers and recruited corporate partners, oversaw the intellectual property portfolio, managed prototype software development, and assisted with business plan development and fund raising.