Ben Holt is a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property with industry experience in software, cloud computing, Internet technologies, video game systems, electronics and embedded systems. He advises Fortune 500 companies, mid-size companies, foreign entities and start-ups on patent prosecution and portfolio strategy.

Prior to graduating from law and business school, Mr. Holt was tapped by the Lassonde Center at the University of Utah as an associate to assist with the launch of the University's inventions into the marketplace. This prestigious and competitive selection allowed him to interface with local inventors, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Mr. Holt's experience includes leading a student group that evaluated business strategy for a small start-up company and a large hospital resulting in recommendations to lock in a competitive advantage.

Mr. Holt was formerly an embedded engineer with Systronix in Salt Lake City. He was the project lead for their JCX project, interfacing their processors with a variety of input/output modules. Mr. Holt's work included the API functionality, allowing programmers to rapidly deploy embedded solutions in real-time Java. For this work, he was invited to give two BOF presentations at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.