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I have over 20 years’ experience in the field of intellectual property and a background in IT consulting and software engineering.
Having worked in industry as an IT consultant at Logica, I have first-hand experience of clients’ IP objectives. I then joined Sony as a research engineer, and for around 5 years I worked on image and video compression, digital watermarking, digital cinema, digital rights management and cryptography – I was an inventor on around 50 patent families, so I know how to work with inventors and speak their language, getting around a whiteboard and guiding them through the IP process. I make the most of this background to ensure that our clients’ experiences are as positive, accessible and straightforward as possible.
As a member of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) team, I advise on the very complex issues of patent protection for AI and machine learning (ML) technologies across all industry sectors. From fraud prevention to natural language generation, video rights management to disease diagnostics, the AI team and I are involved at the frontline of AI and ML development.
It has been particularly rewarding working with clients on AI technologies for autonomous vehicles, with models for vehicle control, driver awareness detection, etc. based on real-time video and vehicle sensor data. I help clients with ML deployments that assist with dynamic resource allocation in cloud-based systems. Working with inventors to explore the low-level detail and mathematical challenges of inventions that address ML security issues (such as unauthorised model usage, detecting malicious model modification and attack) has been very exciting. It is amazing what can be achieved – given my mathematics and software background, I find working this field of technology intellectually very interesting.
My practice generally focuses on technologies that lie close to the border between patentable and non-patentable subject-matter. Many of my clients work in emerging technologies that push the limits of what is or is not patent-eligible, and that calls for creative solutions to successfully navigate the IP challenges this brings. The law in this area is trying to keep pace with the developments in AI and ML, and I always aim to guide clients through the complex issues and considerations in a pragmatic and insightful way.
I am proud of the Boult AI team and all that we have achieved for our clients. I know the future will bring new challenges both for us and our clients, but I also know that together we can solve the most complex AI or ML IP matters.
