Michael Lubitz

the highest value per asset transaction and the single largest asset transfer between practicing entities. GTT’s Group’s success related to patent transactions has been in part attributed to its core competency in patent valuation. Mr. Lubitz has always emphasized patent valuation analysis before considering any transaction that may have significant consequence.

Mr. Lubitz is regarded as a pioneer in patent valuation, having initiated GTT Group’s internal system of integrating actual transaction data within a complex modeling framework. The assessment methodology has been deployed across a wide variety of portfolios and businesses to confirm and identify pent up or undiscovered value. Mr. Lubitz is also the originator of the Patent Market Index or PMI, which is widely regarded as the benchmark economic index for patent activity within the United States.

Prior to starting what would become GTT Group in 1997, Mr. Lubitz was in-house counsel to Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corporation and then patent counsel to Shin-Etsu Handotai America. Mr. Lubitz is well known as a patent portfolio development specialist, having developed significant portfolios in the semiconductor and communications related areas that eventually led to substantial patent asset transactions. Mr. Lubitz also advised the American Association for the Advancement of Science on technology transfer and new venture creation issues in Japan. Before entering law school, Mr. Lubitz served as a systems specialist for Kyocera Corporation in Kyoto, Japan. Mr. Lubitz has a Bachelor of Science in General Business with an emphasis in Japanese from Arizona State University. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego, School of Law. At the University of San Diego he received the American Jurisprudence Award for his work in Ethics and Secured Transactions and served as an Associate Editor of the Journal for Contemporary Legal Issues.