Breaking Ground: Mastering Patent Eligibility in the Realm of ML, AI, and Software Innovations

Dr. Orlando Lopez concentrates on helping his clients, which range from individual inventors to large multinational corporations and universities, identify and protect their intellectual property and build their patent portfolios. Orlando has over twenty-five years of experience at various high technology companies, including Polaroid, Data General, Control Data, and Science Applications, as a technical manager, program manager, engineer and researcher. His experience spans from managing product design projects, managing complex research teams involving software, IC design, optics, mechanics and electronics to being an active researcher in areas from magnetic and optical recording and electromagnetic effects to imaging science.

He has drafted and prosecuted over 300 U.S. patent applications in diverse areas of technology such as nanotechnology, optics, quantum cryptography, software, machine learning (AI), business methods, software, telecommunications, wireless applications, electronic imaging, mechanical and physical devices. He Co-authored an amicus brief that was submitted to U.S. Supreme Court for Bilski vs. Kappos, a patentable subject matter case.

Robert Plotkin is an MIT-educated patent attorney who has been specializing in software patents for over 25 years. He represents tech startup companies through all stages of their development, from initial conception through product development and launch, and through growth and exit, such as by acquisition or IPO. He collaborates closely with his startup clients to obtain broad, strong, and defensible software patents in the U.S. and worldwide. He is a founding partner of Blueshift IP, a patent law firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts that specializes in software patents. His clients entrust him with their most valuable software patents and he is often called on to advice in business-critical software patent acquisitions and litigation.