Al Araiza, Partner at Perkins Coie

Today, my guest is, Al Araiza, a Partner at Perkins Coie and intellectual property attorney who devises innovative solutions to help clients achieve successful outcomes from their creative endeavors. Al Araiza crafts IP strategies to achieve clients’ corporate objectives, and helps founders and investors develop patent portfolios for successful exits, including initial public offerings and acquisitions. He performs valuations for sales and acquisitions, develops monetization and cost optimization strategies, handles patent cross-licensing, and conducts comprehensive technical investigations related to patent assertions, including developing infringement and invalidity theories.

Al protects innovations with domestic and foreign patents for technologies from wireless communications, climate, and artificial intelligence to blockchain and digital currency, virtual and mixed reality, and consumer products. Al’s clients include Atlas Reality, Alpha Grid, Doxel, Forge Global, Notion Labs, Osom Products, Sud Scrub, T-Mobile, and Weavix. Al holds a JD from Duke University School of Law, an M.Eng from Tulane University and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.