Bob is founder and owner of RPT Legal Strategies PC in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, providing business and legal advice to businesses and investors with respect to litigation, antitrust, intellectual property and related fields of law. For more than 40 years, he served as lead counsel in numerous antitrust and/or patent cases. He has represented companies and their investors with respect to licensing and merger transactions involving these areas of practice. Bob has written and lectured extensively on both antitrust and intellectual property issues. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a former chair of the Antitrust Section of the ABA (1991-92) and was a member of the Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform. He is a Lifetime Member of the American Law Institute and served as co-chair of the Antitrust Committee of Intellectual Property Owners Association, and as a member of IPO’s Amicus Committee.