The placement of intellectual property partner Jordan Becker with Perkins Coie. Becker, formerly a partner with Blakely Sokoloff in Silicon Valley, has a counseling and services practice in intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution, initiation and guidance of clients’ IP protection programs, patent validity and infringement analyses and opinions, IP licensing and other technology-related transactions, IP due diligence investigations for corporate transactions, IP enforcement preparation and litigation support.