Spencer Guy

Director, Licensing

At Avanci, Spencer works on the development of Avanci Video, the independent, one-stop licensing platform which brings together licensors and licensees to share video technologies for internet streaming video.

Spencer joined Avanci’s affiliate Marconi in 2015 and has more than a decade of experience in strategic intellectual property matters. At Marconi he has made substantial contributions to Avanci affiliates Innovius and Teletry, and provides licensing support to other Avanci programs such as Avanci Broadcast.

Before Marconi, Spencer began his career at a boutique legal practice based in Dallas, as patent counsel to several high technology clients. His expertise spans licensing support, portfolio development and patent prosecution, in fields including standardized wireless communication technologies, video technologies incorporating codecs and extended reality, and location and mapping technologies such as autonomous driving. 

A registered Patent Attorney with the USPTO, Spencer has a J.D. from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University and B.S. from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.  He is based in Dallas, Texas, USA.