Robert Taylor

Bob Taylor is the owner of RPT Legal Strategies PC in San Francisco and Palo Alto, providing legal and business advice to companies and investors with respect to all aspects of intellectual property, competition law, and related fields of endeavor. He also serves as General Counsel of USIJ, the Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Bayh-Dole Coalition.

For more than 40 years, Bob has focused primarily on intellectual property litigation, serving as lead trial counsel and/or appellate counsel in dozens of patent, copyright, trade secret and antitrust cases involving a wide range of technologies and industries. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a lifetime member of both ALI, the American Law Institute, and IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Bob Taylor has written and lectured extensively on the business and legal problems associated with both intellectual property protection and the laws related to competition. He served for several years as the co-chair of the Antitrust Committee of IPO, the Intellectual Property Owners Association, and also as a member of IPO’s Amicus Committee. He is a former chair of the Antitrust Section of ABA, the American Bar Association, and served as a member of the 1992 U.S. Commission on Patent Law Reform. He started his career as a Patent Examiner.