Alexander Cohen Senior Analyst

Alexander J. Cohen is a senior analyst at Quantum Intellectual Property Services, where he focuses on software patent analysis and portfolio analysis and management for clients.

Dr. Cohen is also chairman and co-founder of Undergroundfilm.org, an online, non-profit website dedicated to connecting independent filmmakers with their audiences via digital distribution technology.

Prior to his current positions, Dr. Cohen was vice president of engineering at OpenDesign, a distributed computing platform company based in Bellevue, Washington. He was also chief technology officer of Pop.com, a joint effort of Dreamworks and Imagine Entertainment. In the past, he has held executive positions at CNET and at Netscape, where he founded the team for web applications and led the software and IT development efforts that became my.netscape.com. Dr. Cohen also served as chief technology officer and co-founder of The McKinley Group, which produced The Magellan, the first rated and reviewed search engine on the Internet.

In addition to his patent and intellectual property work and entrepreneurial ventures, Dr. Cohen teaches in the Film Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley. His courses study the effects of the Internet and media technology on cinema and society. He has also taught courses on the philosophy and rhetoric of science as well as critical theories of technology. Dr. Cohen received his Ph.D., and M.A. in Comparative Literature from SUNY at Buffalo in 1988. In 1981 he received his A.B. in Biology from Brown University.