Manny Schecter

Manny Schecter is retired Chief Patent Counsel and Associate General Counsel at IBM. He led IBM’s worldwide intellectual property law organization on patent matters and advised on intellectual property strategy and policy. His accomplishments have helped IBM generate over $20B of income from IP while maintaining its position as the top annual US patentee for more than 25 consecutive years.

Manny serves on the board of directors of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the IPO Education Foundation (where he is immediate past president), Allied Security Trust, and the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU). He served on the board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association from 2013-2016.  In 2015 he was named to the list of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by Managing Intellectual Property magazine.