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Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz Offices
Azrieli Sarona Tower, 121 Menachem Begin Road
53rd floor
Tel Aviv, 6701203
Israel
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Yoav Alkaly
Work Department
IL STEM Group
Position
Yoav Alkalay is a partner and Chair of the IL STEM Group at Pearl Cohen’s Pearl Cohen’s Office.
Career
For 20 years Yoav has been advising clients on various Intellectual Property matters, such as strategic patent portfolio development and management, patents monetization, IP due diligence for M&A deals, Standard Essential Patents (SEP’s), and more.
His work includes managing and developing large patent portfolios, advising on patent strategies and monetization, conducting IP due diligence for M&A deals, counseling on Standard Essential Patents (SEP’s), and more. He has been involved in IP due diligence matters on behalf of clients in both the buying and investing side, advising clients who were subject to the due diligence, patent litigations in Israel and in the US, negotiations and litigations of SEP’s, and in strategic development and scaling of the patent portfolios of his clients, as well as of internal procedures for them to foster innovation.
Prior to joining Pearl Cohen, Yoav was in senior in-house positions, such as Head of IP at Amdocs and a patent attorney at the IP Law department of IBM in Israel and in the US. Under Yoav’s leadership as Head of IP, Amdocs was listed among the top 1000 US assignees and won a post-Alice favorable decision with the Federal Circuit on patent-eligibility (one of the first post-Alice favorable decisions to owners of software-implemented patents).
Yoav’s clients range from entrepreneurs and startups, to Fortune 500 companies. He represents global corporations, mid-size and private companies, as well as startups in diverse areas, ranging from telecommunications , IOT, AI, software and hardware chip design and processing, cyber, automotive, digital health and medical devices, agro-tech and more.
Languages
Hebrew, English
Education
LLB, LLM, Haifa University Faculty of Law
BSc, Computer Science, Haifa University
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- Healthcare and life sciences
- Hi-tech and start-ups
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: disputes
- Investment and venture capital funds
- Capital markets
- Employment
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration
- Infrastructure
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: filing/prosecution