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Mihir Patel
Director, AWS Security at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Mihir Patel boasts an impressive track record with over 18 years of experience in patent licensing, IP acquisitions, patent valuation, and analytics, portfolio management, and IP advisory services.
His current role at AST sees him spearheading technical analysis and data analytics to aid AST members in identifying strategic and defensive patent purchase and licensing opportunities on the secondary market. Patel also supervises a team of subject matter experts, IP analysts, and outsourcing partners at AST. Additionally, he oversees product development for the online patent database tool, fAST IP, enabling AST members to evaluate and review patent purchase opportunities.
Before joining AST, Patel contributed his expertise at ThinkFire Services, assisting major fortune 500 companies in evaluating their patent portfolios for licensing and brokerage possibilities, litigation, reverse engineering, claim charting, and IP modeling. He served as a pivotal member of the founding team at PatentFreedom (subsequently acquired by RPX), where he led the content research team and managed system workflow.
Education-wise, Mihir Patel pursued a Masters's degree at Stevens Institute of Technology and completed his Bachelors's degree at Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University.
Throughout his career, Patel held various significant positions, including Vice President Technology & Analytics at Allied Security Trust, Director & Co-founder at PatentFreedom, Director, Patent Analytics at ThinkFire Services, Technology Associate at Lucent Technology, and Graduate Research Assistant at Stevens Institute of Technology.
