brett alten

Brett Alten is Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel at HP Enterprise. He was previously Associate General Counsel - IP at Tesla, Inc; and prior to that, Deputy General Counsel & Head of IP at SolarCity Corp. Prior to that, he served as Head of IP at DropBox and Director of Patent Enforcement and Director of Patent Development at Apple. Before that, Brett was with Morrison & Foerster in Tokyo, focusing primarily on patent litigation, adversarial licensing, strategy, and counseling. Previously, he was with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner in Washington DC and at Fish & Neave in New York City. Brett received his J.D. at Fordham Law School; Ph.D. and M.A. in Physics at John Hopkins University, and B.A. in Physics at Clark University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, where he taught physics and started a vocational school.