Neer Gupta is an intellectual property attorney with over 25 years of experience in the areas of patent licensing, litigation, and strategy. He joined Verizon Communications in 2008 and is currently Managing Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property. In this role, Neer is responsible for a variety of transactional matters involving the company’s intellectual property and is the President of the company’s patent licensing entity. His areas of responsibility include intellectual property issues as they relate to mergers and acquisitions, licensing, patent purchases and sales, customer and vendor contracts, participation in standards bodies, open source software, and other strategic activities of Verizon and its affiliates.

Prior to joining Verizon, Neer was Executive Counsel for The Walt Disney Company in Burbank, CA, where he was responsible for establishing a comprehensive patent strategy, as well as handling patent litigation and patent licensing matters. Prior to Disney, Neer provided intellectual property advisory services to Fortune 500 companies while at ThinkFire Services and was a litigation associate at Pennie & Edmonds and Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, both in New York City.

Neer received his Bachelor of Engineering degree, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Math from Vanderbilt University, and his law degree from New York University.