Fumitomo Hide

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Principal IP Architect @ Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
California, United States
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About Fumitomo Hide

IP strategist and patent portfolio architect at early-stage battery - optoelectronics - semiconductor - nanotechnology companies. Delivered $1.8M in joint development and product revenue at startup company Light Polymers while working part-time. Extensive experience developing strategic partnerships with Japanese hardware and materials companies.

Fumitomo Hide's Current Company Details
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.

Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Principal IP Architect
California, United States
Website:
silanano.com
Employees:
401
Fumitomo Hide Work Experience Details
  • Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
    Principal Ip Architect
    Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
    California, United States
  • Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
    Principal Ip (Patent) Portfolio Architect
    Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. Oct 2024 - Present
    Alameda, California, Us
  • Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.
    Ip (Patent) Portfolio Architect
    Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. Jun 2021 - Oct 2024
    Alameda, California, Us
    Patent portfolio architect, responsible for developing Sila’s entire portfolio of patents. Currently, the portfolio includes over 200 patents and pending patent applications. During my 2-year tenure at Sila, we have filed more than 100 applications and have had more than 60 patents issued. Implemented invention disclosure process and IP steering committee process for deciding new matter filing, continuation/divisional filing, annuity payment, and prosecution discontinuation decisions. Responsible for full range of patent-related matters: identifying and harvesting inventions, identifying patentable inventions and trade secrets, conducting prior art searches, investigating competitive technologies, setting patent filing strategies including non-publication requests, drafting patent claims and patent applications, managing outside patent counsel, reviewing and editing office action responses, drafting continuation/continuation-in-part applications, advising internal stakeholders on patent-related questions, analyzing technical materials relating to patent licensing.
  • Ultrasense Systems
    Ip Strategist & Patent Portfolio Architect
    Ultrasense Systems Oct 2019 - Present
    San Jose, California, Us
    IP Strategy Consultant at UltraSense Systems, a VC-funded Silicon Valley company developing a new touch interface with 3D-ultrasound for mobile, household appliances, automotive, medical and IoT applications. Working closely with the founding technical team to architect a foundational patent portfolio covering sensor architectures, algorithms, and systems.
  • Xtpl
    Ip (Patent) Strategist
    Xtpl Oct 2018 - Present
    Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Pl
    XTPL is developing printers for ultra-precise deposition of nanomaterials, with applications such as mini-LEDs, micro-LEDs, OLEDs, smart glass. Working closely with the multidisciplinary technical team to architect and develop a comprehensive patent portfolio.Wrote 15 patent applications covering printing systems, algorithms, imaging systems, nanomaterial compositions, and printing methods.
  • Light Polymers
    Vice President - Strategic Partnerships - Business Development - Intellectual Property
    Light Polymers Apr 2017 - Jun 2021
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Negotiated and closed two major joint development agreements (JDAs) with a top worldwide supplier to the flat panel display industry, total revenue to the company > $1.7 M. Working part-time, contributed most of the company's 2020 revenue. Various critical development activities at Light Polymers, an early-stage nanomaterials company. Key application is circular polarizer for foldable OLED applications. Business development with strategic partner companies in Japan's semiconductor capital equipment, materials/chemicals, and precision printing/films industries. Patent portfolio development.
  • Light Polymers
    Ip Strategy Consultant
    Light Polymers Mar 2014 - Mar 2017
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Light Polymers is an early-stage company developing new photonic applications of lyotropic liquid crystals, enabling new applications such as LED phosphor sheets and dispersion compensation film in OLEDs and LCDs. • Identified and retained professional caliber outside patent counsel for Light Polymers and Crysoptix, a licensor to Light Polymers.• Reviewed or edited application drafts, office actions, and prior art. Light Polymers’s portfolio now has over 10 non-provisional patent applications.
  • Soraa
    Ip Strategist & Patent Portfolio Manager
    Soraa Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
    Fremont, California, Us
    Soraa has developed GaN-on-GaN (gallium nitride-on-gallium nitride) technology for LEDs. This unique technology enables five times greater light output, circadian-friendly lighting, blue-free lighting, bacteria-suppression lighting, and high-quality full-spectrum lighting with more natural white rendering. This is protected by a patent portfolio of 240 patents and patent applications. Worked on the sale of a patent portfolio to a major Japanese materials and electronics company for an eight figure sum in October 2019. Worked on the sale of the remaining patent assets and other assets to Ecosense Lighting in March 2020. Managed ongoing prosecution, portfolio maintenance, and licensing matters.
  • Keracel
    Ip Strategy Consultant
    Keracel Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
  • Manutius Ip, Inc.
    Chief Technical Officer (Cto) And Japan Business Development
    Manutius Ip, Inc. Apr 2014 - Oct 2015
    Manutius IP was a patent licensing company, focusing on semiconductor patents. Consolidated subsidiary of a major Japanese electronics conglomerate. Responsibilities included: identification of high-value semiconductor patents and business development discussions with the owners of these patents. Built partnerships with three patent owners. Manutius stopped operations at the end of October 2015 because of changes at the parent company.• Identified and claim-charted approximately 40 highly valuable semiconductor patents from several thousand owned by Japanese electronics companies. • Technologies investigated: high-k/metal gate with dual work functions, Cu metallization with Co liner, laser ablation dicing, flip-chip bond pad, PMOS strain engineering using embedded SiGe channel, embedded fuse, SRAM gate layout, etc. Process technologies at 20 nm, 28 nm, 40 nm nodes etc.• Leveraged existing, commercially available reverse engineering reports to find infringement. Spent less than $150k in reverse engineering reports to identify 40 semiconductor patents.• Aligned patent selection and business terms through monthly visits and frequent phone conferences with patent owners.
  • Rambus
    Senior Director (Ip Strategy)
    Rambus Mar 2010 - Mar 2014
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Sr. IP Strategy Director for Light and Display Technology (LDT) business unit, formed by the acquisition of the IP portion of GLT in December 2009. Reported to president of LDT. Responsibilities included: Licensing and patent monetization in LED edge-lit backlight unit (BLU) technology; patent portfolio development for displays and LED lighting; and patent due diligence for acquisitions. • Conducted infringement analysis of over 100 consumer electronics products and claim charted more than 10 patents.• Technical lead in sales of LED backlight patents and automotive LED lighting patents to a publicly-traded patent licensing company. These sales yielded immediate multi-million-dollar income to Rambus. Subsequently, as part of a revenue share arrangement from the licensing revenue, Rambus received a multi-million-dollar income stream.• Licensing and business development: Visited and presented to licensing target companies in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and the US. Opened up 3 separate channels of discussion with a large Japanese LCD company: large panel business, small panel business, and patent licensing group.• Reviewed and edited new patent applications as part of interdisciplinary team. Filed more than 20 new matter utility patent applications per year in 2011 and 2012. Patent portfolio grew more than threefold to nearly 150 patents from the time of GLT acquisition.
  • Ipvalue Management Inc.
    Ip Technologist And Manager Of New Business Initiatives
    Ipvalue Management Inc. Jan 2005 - Feb 2010
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    IPValue is a patent licensing & sale company representing major technology innovators (patent owners) such as PARC, a major research institute. Responsibilities included: patent infringement analysis and claim-charting of consumer electronics products; reverse engineering including its planning and management; patent portfolio mining and analysis; and technical discussions with counter-parties/clients. • Negotiated an exclusive engagement to broker the sale of patents relating to automotive technology, owned by a Japanese electronics company.• Analyzed a portfolio of ˜ 100 TFT-LCD related patents owned by PARC and claim charted about 12 patents.• Technical lead in the eventual sale of these patents to a patent licensing company, yielding proceeds in the 8 figures.IP Consultant from 6/2008 to 1/2009, while working at Global Lighting Technologies.
  • Global Lighting Technologies Inc.
    Director Of Intellectual Property
    Global Lighting Technologies Inc. Jun 2008 - Feb 2009
    Brecksville, Oh, Us
    GLT is a manufacturer of LED edge-lit backlight units (BLUs) for LCDs, headquartered in Taiwan with R&D in Brecksville, Ohio. The IP business office was set up in Sunnyvale, CA. Responsibilities included patent prosecution and patent infringement analysis. The IP portion of GLT was acquired by Rambus in December 2009.
  • Various Companies
    Ip And Business Development Consultant
    Various Companies Apr 2002 - Dec 2004
    Consultant to startup companies such as Display Research Laboratories (CdSe-based TFT technologies), Silicon Quest (MEMS light valve projector), and Vapore (capillary liquid vaporization), advising them on patent prosecution and business development in Asia.
  • Adven Corp.
    Vice President, R&D; Co-Founder
    Adven Corp. Aug 1999 - Dec 2001
    Angel-funded startup company that developed fuel cells and batteries for portable electronics. Responsibilities included: R&D of fuel cells and batteries, management of outside machine shops, business plan development, and development of test measurement system (LabVIEW).• Scaled up the output power of direct methanol fuel cell stack by more than 400 times.
  • Ibm Storage Systems Division
    Advisory Engineer (Development)
    Ibm Storage Systems Division Aug 1998 - Jul 1999
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    OPTICAL ENGINEER: Fab development for TFH (thin film head) sliders.
  • Raychem Corporation
    Staff Engineer, R&D
    Raychem Corporation Aug 1997 - Jul 1998
    Ch-8200 Schaffhausen, Ch
    Fabricated silicon-based MEMS devices for gas sensor applications.
  • Uc Santa Barbara
    Graduate Student Researcher
    Uc Santa Barbara Aug 1993 - Jul 1997
    Santa Barbara, Ca, Us
    Under the direction of Professor Alan J. Heeger, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000.Laser spectroscopy and device physics on conjugated polymers.• Invented polymeric semiconductor laser. US Patent 5881083. F. Hide, et al., “Semiconducting polymers as a new class of laser materials,” Science, vol. 273, 1833 (1996) • Named an inventor on white light LED using polymeric semiconductor and gallium nitride (GaN). US Patent 5966393.
  • Sony Corporation Research Center
    R&D Engineer
    Sony Corporation Research Center Aug 1991 - Aug 1993
    Tokyo, Jp
    R&D of LCDs.
  • Nippon Motorola
    Intern
    Nippon Motorola 1989 - 1990

Fumitomo Hide Skills

Patents Patent Litigation Intellectual Property Laser Licensing Thin Films Semiconductors R&d Materials Science Invention Patent Portfolio Analysis Due Diligence Ic Start Ups Lcd Optics Product Development Laser Diodes Led Displays Patent Portfolio Development Cross Functional Team Leadership Strategy Tft Oled Intellectual Property Infringement Business Development Mergers And Acquisitions Patent Law Patent Infringement Analysis Patent Prosecution Strategic Partnerships Management

Fumitomo Hide Education Details

  • Uc Santa Barbara
    Uc Santa Barbara
    Solid State Physics (Lasers)
  • Uc Santa Barbara
    Uc Santa Barbara
    Physics
  • Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
    Physics With Electrical Engineering

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Fumitomo Hide's colleagues are Dawn Ingersoll, Vincent Wu, Alizain Merchant, Garett Estadt, Aditya Balasubramanian, Wenbin Fu, Joel Moskowitz.

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