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Boaz joined IPValue in February 2012 as Vice president, IP Counsel, and assumed his current role in 2018. Boaz came to IPValue from Alcatel-Lucent, where he held the role of Senior IP Counsel and Head, Assertion. In that role, Boaz was responsible for leading a worldwide team of attorneys who asserted and licensed Alcatel-Lucent patents. Before leading the assertion team, Boaz managed Lucent’s complex, multi-jurisdictional patent cases. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Boaz was a litigation associate and partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis, where he specialized in patent litigation.

Boaz received his Juris Doctor from UCLA (Order of the Coif) and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Boaz is registered to practice in the State and District courts in California, as well as before the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.