MARKUP - Key Persons
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- Co - Founder & Executive Chair
Andrew is an independent inventor and IP lawyer, and a founding partner of Smith Baluch, LLP, a law firm representing clients with complex intellectual property matters. He is a former White House Director International IP enforcement, and a former expert legal advisor to the Director of the USPTO.
Andrew S. Baluch is an independent inventor, an IP lawyer, and a co-founder of the startup company Markup LLC. Andrew is also a founding partner of Smith Baluch LLP, a law firm representing clients with complex intellectual property matters, particularly in USPTO post-grant proceedings (inter partes review, post-grant review, reissues, reexaminations), and in appeals before the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Andrew is a former Director of International IP Enforcement in the White House Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). Prior to his White House appointment, Andrew served as an expert legal advisor to the Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).
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- Executive Director
- Senior Fellow
- Executive Relations Officer
Executive Relations Officer, the Marconi Society, Executive Director AH Consulting;
Senior Fellow, People Centered Internet
Former: Expert Consultant, International Telecommunications Union; Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, Internet Society (ISOC); Senior Policy Manager, Commission on the Digital Economy, and Executive in Charge of the BASIS initiative, Business Action to Support the Information Society, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Paris; Head of Online Dispute Resolution; Squaretrade Associate, Burnham & Brown law firm
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- Advisor / Head of Global Operations, Otaaki
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- Advisor / Co - President, Marshall & Popp
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- Advisor / Principal, La Cima Partners
Peter bridges the ecosystems of technology, policy, business, law, politics, and entrepreneurship. He understands the substance of issues, innovators, markets and their shortcomings and strengths. In addition to co-founding Markup, Peter is the founder of The Farrington Group, a privately held consulting firms advising on political, legislative, and regulatory risk in the areas of focus are patents, cybersecurity, data, and precision agriculture.
Peter's career began in 1993 as an Internet lawyer in his home town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and broadened in Silicon Valley as head of global government affairs for Netscape and EMusic.com and in business development and sales for Securify (McAfee), investors, and startups. He deepened in Washington, DC, lobbying on patent reform for Intellectual Ventures. Peter is a graduate of Lehigh University and Villanova University School of Law. Peter's wife Shelby is a grape grower and winemaker in the Eola-Amity AVA of the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Peter bridges the ecosystems of technology, policy, business, law, politics, and entrepreneurship. As the Founder of The Farrington Group, a privately held consulting firm, Peter provides advice to management, boards and investors on political, legislative, and regulatory risk. Areas of focus are patents, cybersecurity, data, and precision agriculture.
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- Advisor / Principal, Kiko Strategies
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- Advisor / President, New Democratic Network & the New Policy Institute
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- Advisor / Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP