ALL-Q-TELL Corporation (ALLQ: OTC US) Announces That Michael W. Starkweather, Esq., Has Joined the Company as Executive Vice President and General Counsel
DALLAS, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ALL-Q-TELL Corporation (OTCBB: PK: ALLQ) today announced that Michael W. Starkweather, Esq., an internationally recognized intellectual property (IP) expert, has been appointed the company's Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
As an Executive Vice President, Starkweather will join the executive leadership team in driving ALL-Q-TELL's (ALLQ) strategic direction. In his role as General Counsel for ALLQ, Starkweather will lead the team's legal affairs; including corporate, securities, litigation, intellectual property, regulatory affairs, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, employment law, and corporate governance matters.
Starkweather is most noted for having been the attorney on an immensely valuable patent that covers the downloading of music and video over the internet, which Apple Inc. acquired in 2006 for over $500 million. Mr. Starkweather began his career as a Patent Examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He has served as an in-house patent attorney for Xerox Corporation, AT&T/NCR, Micron Semiconductor, CTS Corporation and IBM. He then moved to private practice, where he has operated, for over a decade, his own firm, Advantia Law Group. Mr. Starkweather also spent half a decade teaching at the University of Utah, in their MBA and tech program, where he lectured on international patent portfolio strategy and development.
Intellectual property portfolio management has been a major focus for Mr. Starkweather. He has developed tools for executives to clearly "valuate" IP portfolios involving thousands of patents. With this portfolio view, he developed a corporate IP strategy for a major corporation that increased their patent portfolio by 844 percent in three years, and has been a consultant with Thompson Reuters to help design patent and technology strategies for multi-billion dollar international companies.
ALL-Q-TELL's Chairman and President, Don Hodge, stated: "It is indeed an honor and a privilege to welcome Michael Starkweather to ALL-Q-TELL Corporation. His specialized expertise will be invaluable as we continue building ALLQ into a leading intelligence and security company. With Starkweather on ALLQ's management team, the company is now positioned to accelerate its growth."
Starkweather stated: "CXOs and investors realize the strategic importance of intellectual property portfolios. A group led by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation spent $4.5 billion in an auction of patents owned by Nortel Networks Corp. recently. In response, Google Inc. agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion -- in large part to acquire Motorola's extensive patent portfolio. ALLQ's core philosophy is the same -- dominate your industry and generate extraordinary profit margins. I'm thrilled to become part of the team that will create a predominant company in the security and intelligence industries."
ALL-Q-TELL's Chief Operating Officer, David Virgil Dafinoiu, added: "I'm excited to have Michael on our team to contribute his unique perspectives on the combination of legal, technical and business issues. I look forward to brainstorming and strategizing with Michael."
ALL-Q-TELL Corporation (OTCBB:PK:ALLQ) is an international preeminent security and intelligence solutions and services provider. They solve customers' mission-critical problems with innovative applications of technology and expertise. In the battlefield or in the corporate office, ALLQ's people and technologies are there. On crime scenes investigating new evidence, in combat zones helping protect and support our men and women in uniform, ALLQ is there.
ALL-Q-TELL does all this with the constant and deliberate commitment to ethical performance and integrity that has marked ALLQ since its founding.
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