San Francisco-based Dolby Laboratories has hired Brian Way as senior director of patent licensing. Way was head of intellectual property at Altera and worked at Apple and Morrison & Foerster earlier in his career. Dolby earns almost 90 percent of its revenue from licensing patents—it has more than 3,500, plus 2,700 pending applications—directly to manufacturers and indirectly through patent pools. Dolby also manages patent pools on behalf of third-party owners through a subsidiary, Via Licensing Corporation. See story online.
LAW FIRMS
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has added Ryan Murr as a partner in its San Francisco office. A former corporate partner at Ropes & Gray, he will serve as cochairman of Gibson Dunn’s life sciences practice group and will continue to represent technology and life sciences companies. See story online.
