Experience

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  Axess Digital

  • Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Operations Manager

    • Mar 2023 - Present
    • Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  Tech+IP Advisory

  • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Vice President, Patent Analytics Lead

    • Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
    • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Tech+IP Advisory, LLC is a boutique advisory firm specializing in advising company management, boards and other stakeholders on how to identify and realize value from their Tech+IP Assets. Headquartered in the Washington DC area with offices in San Francisco, Taipei, and Sarajevo, Tech+IP was founded by the former global co-heads of Tech+IP Advisory for leading independent investment bank Houlihan Lokey.In the last 4 years alone, TIP has advised clients on projects creating over $6BN in market value. With 100+ collective years of experience, the TIP team has a history of successfully executing Tech+IP M&A and financings through changing market conditions.My major duties were:• Led the in-house engineering and legal team on a daily basis on various projects focusing specifically on patents i.e., sellside and buyside transactions, licensing, and portfolio patent management (e.g., by performing technical and business analyses of complex patent portfolios and technologies; investigating and creating in-depth data analyses and preparing Evidence-Of-Use (claim chart) studies);• Performed the role of Project Manager on several projects (e.g., being a PM on a $600M worth sale of patent portfolio (38k patents) of one of the major software companies in the world);• Advised clients in IP monetization strategy in a wide range of industries including telecommunications (e.g., 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, Zigbee), consumer electronics, automotive, medical devices (e.g., being a team lead in identifying and making monetization strategies for six different patent portfolio packages of one of the leading telecommunications companies in the world); • Major clients were Fortune 500 companies including BlackBerry, HTC, Nokia, General Electric, HEVC Advance, Conversant IP, Avaya, etc.

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  BSIP

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Legal Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Co-Head of Analytics Department

    • Sep 2018 - Apr 2020

    BSIP d.o.o. is a specialized engineering and consulting agency. BSIP operates globally from Bosnia and Herzegovina. They gained vast IP experience working with Fortune 500 companies for over a decade. Their versatile teams of experienced professionals support research into innovation, inventiveness and industrial applicability (through various analyses, such as prior art search, technological landscapes etc.), patent prosecution and cooperation with client R&D teams, all the way to reverse engineering and “rapid prototyping” of the new products.My major duties were: • Led the in-house engineering team on a daily basis;• Performed a PM role or Analytics team lead role on various projects including advisory of Fortune 500 companies on trading IP and technology assets to realize strategic value from their investments (e.g., led the portfolio analysis of 3k patents sale of one of major web service provider companies in the world at the time);• Major clients were Fortune 500 companies including Yahoo!, Philips, Broadcom, IBM, BlackBerry, Covidien, Fujitsu, Microchip, Siemens, Harman, TPG, Lear Corp. etc.

  • Patent Engineer

    • Nov 2016 - Sep 2018

    My major duties were: • Prepared Evidence-Of-Use (claim charts) studies by analyzing products currently used in the market and their potential infringement of patents in force;• Performed competitive patent landscape studies and reports to identify trends in specific technologies; did a quality assessment of patents in specific technologies;• Provided big data analysis and data mining of client’s portfolios;

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  Black Stone IP, LLC

  • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Intellectual Property Analyst

    • Jul 2014 - Nov 2016
    • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Founded in 2013, Black Stone IP was a San Francisco, California-based boutique investment bank advisory, focused on valuing and trading technology and intellectual property assets. The firm offered advisory services across a wide spectrum of areas including market research, technology transfer, restructuring, valuation, patent and purchase agreements, patent analytics and deal negotiation. As of January 2018, Black Stone IP was acquired by Houlihan Lokey.My major duties were:• Performed searches and analyses related to patentability, validity, freedom-to-operate, an infringement of patents; prior art analysis; qualitative analysis of patents and patent portfolios from a legal, technical, and business perspective;• Utilized several commercial and other proprietary patent databases such as Innography, Thomson Innovation, Espacenet, USPTO assignment database, Google Patents, LexisNexis, USPTO public pair database, WIPO Patentscope, publicly available IP databases of various national offices, etc.