GRANT RITZ

Grant Ritz is Director and AGC for IP Transactions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Grant manages a team of patent attorneys supporting IP-intensive transactions worldwide, including those involving the creation, use, licensing and transfer of technology and IP. Grant began his legal career as a patent attorney at Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball & Krieger in Houston, Texas writing patent applications for Compaq, later, moving to Compaq and eventually HP/HPE.  During his tenure at HP/HPE, Grant has held a variety of roles involving patent development, transactions, disputes, IP litigation and IP strategy.

Grant received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; an MBA from the University of Dallas; and a law degree from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law.  He is licensed to practice in Texas and Colorado, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to law school, he worked for Texas Instruments, E-Systems and Advanced Micro Devices as an electrical engineer where he designed electronics and wrote firmware.