Unlocking Innovation: Navigating Patentability for ML, AI, and Software Inventions

Michael V. Pack, Ph.D., counsels’ clients in a variety of intellectual property matters. His background and experience in the areas of engineering, technology, and law enable him to successfully provide clients with strategic solutions on patent prosecution and technology matters.

Michael represents a broad range of clients, prosecuting patent applications for U.S. and foreign corporations in many fields, including:
•Machine learning and artificial intelligence
•Computer vision and image/signal processing
•Photonics
•Quantum computing and measurement
•Telecommunications (wireless and optical)
•Medical imaging (CT, PET, MRI, and ultrasound imaging)
•Remote sensing
•Cryptography and blockchain technologies
•Internet-of-things (IoT)
•Cloud computing
•Smart devices
•Business methods

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.

Gosia is a patent attorney specializing in AI and software patents. She has also a Ph.D. degree in computer science. As a patent attorney, she uses her broad expertise in patent law, AI, and computer science to maximize the value of her clients’ patent portfolios and to advise cutting-edge companies specializing in patenting in the AI space. She has also given many presentations and speeches on AI, patenting, patent eligibility, and patent portfolio management.

Gosia is also a partner at Patterson Sheridan LLP, a national full-service intellectual property law firm. P S is among the world’s top ten writers of original U.S. patent applications. Over the years, P S has received accolades and high rankings from U.S. News, The Business Journal, Super Lawyers, and others.