Mr. Weiner is a member of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and practices in the Menlo Park office, spearheading the firm’s intellectual property (IP) practice. He has in-depth experience advising technology and media companies and their stakeholders on complex, business-critical IP matters, including:  analyzing competitive patent landscapes; building and evaluating business-aligned patent portfolios; developing IP strategies for standards, open source and other complex licensing scenarios; enforcing valuable IP assets; assessing, avoiding and responding to third-party IP threats; and negotiating IP asset transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, license and distribution agreements, joint ventures, joint technology development and strategic alliances. His clients have included a diverse group of industry leaders and innovators, including Yahoo!, Comcast, SGI, Affymetrix and Form Factor; leading investment firms; and early-stage ventures and non-profits at the cutting edge of research and development.

Mr. Weiner joined Davis Polk in 2002 after serving as vice president for intellectual property and strategic planning at SRI International, an independent non-profit research and development institute. He held senior responsibility for growing and cultivating SRI’s diverse portfolio of IP assets, and for exploiting those assets through new ventures and license transactions. He also successfully directed SRI’s internal strategic investments in new technologies, stimulating value creation and business growth.

Before joining SRI, Mr. Weiner was senior intellectual property counsel at SGI, where he rapidly developed an aggressive software patent portfolio that was subsequently sold to Microsoft for $60 million. Prior to that he practiced for five years with Irell & Manella, focusing on IP litigation and counseling, and was a member of the trial team that in 1994 successfully obtained a jury verdict of over $100 million in favor of Stac Electronics against Microsoft based on software patent infringements.

Mr. Weiner graduated, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and in 1987 received a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1990. He is a registered U.S. patent attorney and is admitted to the bar of California.