Roy Levien
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Roy Levien is an author, consultant and inventor, with six issued US patents[1] and numerous US patent applications[2]. He is currently a Managing Inventor at Ambient Architecture, an invention company and inventor at Intellectual Ventures where he participates in frequent "invention sessions"[3] covering a variety of topics ranging from human-technology interaction and information processing to medical device technology and health informatics.
Levien received the Microsoft Chairman's Award from Bill Gates in 1990 for his work on applications architecture and the foundations of ActiveX. During his years at Microsoft, Levien worked also as a program manager and product architect and had various other roles including research, multimedia products, management of product teams, advanced systems shell lead, responsibility for future Windows user architecture, and applications architecture.
Since leaving Microsoft, Levien has worked as the Principal and Manager of Keystone Advantage, LLC, and has done freelance consulting on technology policy and complex systems. Recent projects of Levien's include policy papers and case strategy for the remedies phase of the (US) Microsoft antitrust trial, and a book, The Keystone Advantage[4], on "business ecosystems" and the dynamics of modern networked industries. Levien's current activities focus on invention and invention management.
Levien received an M.A. in Biology from Yale University, an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, and has attended the doctoral programs at the Harvard Business School and Cornell's department of Neurobiology and Behavior.
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- ^ US Patents with Roy Levien as inventor
- ^ US Patent Applications with Roy Levien as inventor
- ^ Lerer, Lisa (2006). Mind Games (PDF). IP Law & Business. Retrieved on 2006-05-04.
- ^ Iansiti, Marco; Roy Levien (2004). The Keystone Advantage. Cambridge MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. ISBN 1-59139-307-8.
