Message from Management

Simon Joyce, Upaid Chairman and CEO, Bangkok: “The business of mobile communications is massively changing. Patents are now mission-critical corporate assets. Risks are being recognized and re-priced. Even the biggest players have recently found themselves excluded from markets by competitors and inventors enforcing IP rights. Patents protect large swathes of intellectual real estate in our industry. Patent holders now exercise their rights both defensively and aggressively. Companies building businesses on intellectual real estate they do not own or license do so at their peril and the peril of their shareholders.”

Simon founded Upaid in 1997 and is the portfolio’s named inventor. Anticipating the explosive growth in mobile communications, he directed Upaid patent applications be lodged worldwide to protect the company’s ground-breaking inventions.

Dr. Pat Nunally, Upaid advisor on Patents and Intellectual Property, San Diego: “By the late '90s the technologies defined by Upaid’s portfolio shattered any notion of closed platforms, sometimes called walled gardens where a carrier or service provider constrained their user’s ability to buy, sell or pay using their mobile phone.”

Pat used to head IBM’s wireless portfolio. He is a recognized expert in developing strategic technologies. Over the last 20 years he has become a key actor in the application of patent portfolios.

David Bushong, Upaid advisor, Governance Communications and Management Consulting, sprl. Brussels: "Upaid knows its technology, its market and the evolution of IP in industry business plans. They know licensing depends on enforcement. They work with some of the world's best law firms such as Akin Gump, Venable, Freshfileds, Stass and Halsey, and Kuroda Law Offices. In fact Patton Boggs' partner, David Dunn, served a term as Upaid's board chairman. Upaid knows the value of their IP and stay current consulting regularly with industry expert Chetan Sharma. They are resolute, well resourced and experienced in complex international litigation."

As former Vice President for International Affairs at Philip Morris, David is familiar with litigation communications. Educated as a lawyer and economist, he is schooled in the ways and means of resolving commercial disputes.

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