Dr. Rochester is a patent attorney and fund advisor with over 20 years of legal and business experience in the life sciences and computational science. He has litigated patents for clients such as Biogen and Corning, and performed opinion work for clients like Pfizer. More recently, Dr. Rochester was responsible for the development and licensing of a large portfolio of patents representing inventions by Intellectual Ventures inventors. He received his Ph.D in Genetics from Cornell University Medical College and JD from Fordman Law School in NY.