Ronald Cok Email & Phone Number

Research Triangle Park, Durham North Carolina

Development and prosecution of intellectual property, portfolio management, and administration.

Managed and developed intellectual property portfolios in a variety of technical areas; participated in patent litigation activities, including claims analysis, validity analysis, and strategy development. Provided IP support to business units, including freedom to use, patent landscapes, and technological strategic guidance. Actively developed new patentable concepts, prosecuted office actions, and wrote patent applications.• Invented and wrote more than 350 patented concepts, wrote over 700 office actions, prosecuted more than 500 patents, participated in four patent litigation legal actions, including extensive claim charting and infringement analysis with both in-house and external counsel.• Managed patent portfolio of several thousand patents, including portfolio identification, foreign filing, and renewals.Raymond L. Owens, a retired patent attorney registered before the USPTO for 50 years has worked with Ron for over 15 years on a variety of patent-related activities, including patent procurement, drafting, prosecution, freedom-to-use analysis, and patent analysis and states that in all of these areas Ron has been easy to work with and has demonstrated first-rate skills.

Managed, directed, and participated in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) research projects, Served as Project Manager and Chief Scientist. Work included technology development, publication, and extensive patent activities for core elements of OLED display technology, systems, and applications. • Invented and wrote more than 100 patented concepts and wrote over 500 office actions.• Managed projects and acted as Chief Scientist for projects related to quantum dots, wide-format curved displays, touch screens, alternative backplanes, red-green-blue-white (RGBW) designs, electronic compensation and light output enhancement, and single-use masking.• Directed pre-commercialization activities for the OLED business.• Served as liaison for universities and external start-ups for technology development.

Founded a new research laboratory. Developed a portfolio and team focused on distributed wireless systems, OLED systems, and digital cinema and immersive systems.• Invented and wrote more than 50 inventions and over 200 office actions.• Performed market development, business case analysis, and sales for nascent immersive imaging business.• Managed R&D relationship for the digital imaging business unit.• Performed business planning and research development for digital cinema, immersive imaging, OLED systems, motion imaging, display image quality, touch screens and materials, and large-format displays.• Led Digital Cinema team that won a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscar)

Master Of Science, Electrical Science, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Electrical Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Physics (Honors), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Track, Soccer, Oratorio Society Physics (honors), Mathematics, B. A.