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AI, Electronics, and Information Technology

About

Inventions and advances in electronics and IT-based technologies allow information to flow in as many ways as can be imagined. Through our laptops, tablets, phones, cars, game consoles, appliances, medicines, clothes, …you name it, we are connected like never before, continuously creating and communicating data. As companies enhance or expand product lines or create new industries and markets, there is an absolute need to move quickly and strategically to protect their intellectual property. Rapid innovation makes for tremendous competition, challenging industry leaders and eager newcomers to have a clear business plan that can adapt to changing laws and landscapes. With decades of experience representing companies in high tech industries in prosecution, negotiation, and litigation, Finnegan understands the issues innovative companies face and is passionate about helping them anticipate and navigate these issues so they can keep bringing the future to light.

Understanding the law, science, and technology

With science and engineering backgrounds, including many with experience in industries ranging from defense to communications to entertainment, Finnegan professionals enjoy working with companies investing in research and developing cutting edge technologies. They get excited about applying their technical insight and legal acumen to help craft IP strategies that comport with industry standards and deal with complex issues such as open source software or section 101 challenges. We help by:

  • Protecting against infringement through litigation or other dispute resolution options
  • Instituting and defending post-grant review proceedings
  • Developing and executing strategies for patent prosecution, trade secret protection, and portfolio management
  • Writing opinions and providing ongoing counseling
  • Creating licensing programs
  • Conducting due diligence investigations
  • Registering design protection
  • Providing trademark and copyright services as well as advertising protection


Comprehensive legal, technical, and strategic experience protecting innovations
Our AI, Electronics, and Information Technology practice includes attorneys and professionals with degrees in relevant scientific disciplines such as electrical engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and physics, as well as attorneys with extensive experience in brand management and protection. Many joined Finnegan after holding positions in industry, at universities, or as examiners with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Industries

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present novel challenges for businesses looking to invest in intellectual property. Protecting those investments and understanding the innovation landscape is where Finnegan comes in.

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Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

Innovation in the AR/VR space takes many forms, including branding, digital media, software, hardware, designs, and other intellectual assets. Navigating the IP landscape in this rapidly evolving marketplace is a complex endeavor.

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Automotive and Smart Mobility Tech

Finnegan has a long history of working with automakers and suppliers in the automotive industry building legal strategies designed to help protect, advocate, and leverage their high-value IP assets.

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Digital Health

Consumers have access to an ever-growing number of affordable and portable devices designed to provide metrics and details about personal health and lifestyle. In an increasingly connected world, this type of information can be invaluable in helping healthcare professionals provide higher levels of care.

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Electrical and Computer Technology

The overlap between technological innovations and their application to products and services has created new markets and opportunities for collaboration. Highly prized intellectual property assets typically drive these advances. Decades of working with industry leaders in computer hardware and software, information technology, the Internet, telecommunications, and more, have given us a deep understanding of how those industries have evolved and where they are heading.

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Electronic Devices and Components

Technical advances in core electronic devices and components make possible the better, smarter, and faster capabilities on demand and driving innovation. Finnegan has a long history of representing leading companies in this highly competitive field, including semiconductor manufacturers and device and component innovators.

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Financial Services and Business Systems

Protecting innovations related to financial services, software, and life sciences has for decades presented unique challenges. Finnegan has played a role in some of the seminal court cases involving the scope of patent protection. With our historical insight and sharp focus on the everchanging patent eligibility landscape, we work with clients across a broad range of technologies.

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Gaming

Protecting IP in this ultra-competitive market is an elaborate task due to the various technologies and intellectual properties often involved with cutting-edge gaming innovation. In collaboration with clients, we develop comprehensive, holistic IP strategies designed to protect the spectrum of their technology and innovation.

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Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT has revolutionized how people do business. Whether it be in the field of IoT-enabled homes, cars, industrial manufacturing, supply chains, medical electronics, personal devices, or agriculture, IoT is limited only by the designer’s imagination in creating new applications and adding value.

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Nanotechnology

Innovative companies are developing products with myriad applications, such as tiny batteries, nano-structured surfaces that ward off bacteria, magnetically-controlled microbots, and nanofilament-impregnated contact lenses capable of enabling an HD virtual reality or augmented reality display at a user’s eye.

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Robotics

Technological advances in the fields of semiconductors, sensors, digital imaging, wireless communications, control software, and material science have contributed to the resurgence in robotics research and development. Finnegan works with leaders and innovators in the diverse markets that have contributed to recent and evolving developments in the robotics arena.

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Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)

A Standard Essential Patent (SEP) is an invention that is incorporated into the standard for a certain technology. Handling SEP litigation and license negotiations requires a particular type of experience.

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Experience

Patent services for leading AI innovator OpenAI

Finnegan assists OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment company with matters related to patent application drafting and global prosecution. We also provide patent counseling services.
Prosecuting patents for groundbreaking AI technology
Finnegan partners with AI21 Labs to protect its groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) technology related to natural processing language across the world.

Patent prosecution for AI chip innovator NeuroBlade, Ltd.

Finnegan represents NeuroBlade, Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) inference chips designed to address memory bottlenecks in data center and edge computing environments. The firm provides ongoing patent prosecution services, including drafting and prosecuting applications related to memory-based processors, distributed storage agents, and partial refresh algorithms. Finnegan supports NeuroBlade’s global IP strategy, advising on patent prosecution in the United States, United Kingdom, and multiple Asian jurisdictions.

Supporting Alibaba’s innovation through patent prosecution in AI, quantum, and cloud technologies
Finnegan advises Alibaba on patent drafting and prosecution across a broad spectrum of advanced technologies, including cloud computing, quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), video processing, and blockchain. The firm’s work includes securing patent protection for innovations such as multi-pipeline architectures with special number detection, heterogeneous frequency operation and task scheduling for central processing units (CPUs), and centralized-distributed memory systems for neural network processing.

Copyright counseling for AI innovators

Legal advisor for AI Progress, a coalition of technology companies dedicated to the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Coalition members include Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Meta, Midjourney, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

Open-source software (OSS) risk mitigation

Lead open-source software audits for manufacturers to assess license compliance and usage risks.

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Insights

Federal Circuit IP Blog

Redesigns Done Right at the ITC: Federal Circuit Affirms ITC Determination of Noninfringement of Redesigned Products

June 26, 2026

Articles

The TAKE IT DOWN Act Is Now in Full Effect: What Platforms Need to Know

June 16, 2026

Federal Circuit IP Blog

Federal Circuit Reinforces Injury-in-Fact Requirement in Appeals from Post-Grant Proceedings

June 10, 2026

Federal Circuit IP Blog

Spotlight on Upcoming Oral Arguments – June 2026

June 8, 2026

Seminar

3rd AI, IP, & Legal Forum

June 6, 2026

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Articles

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D. Mass. Patent Litigation Update: April 2026

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Award/Ranking

Forbes Names Finnegan Partner Erika Harmon Arner on its Inaugural 2026 America’s Top Women Lawyers List

June 5, 2026

Commentary

New Appellate Opinion in Amazon Biometric Data Case May Signal ‘Narrowing’ Scope of BIPA Litigation, Experts Say

May 20, 2026

Press Release

Finnegan Secures Decisive ITC Victory for Innoscience in Final Determination

May 11, 2026

Commentary

ITC Bars Import of Innoscience Chips Made Before Redesign

May 8, 2026

Announcement

Finnegan Partner Ningling Wang Becomes President of Licensing Executives Society International

May 4, 2026

Commentary

Heartflow Accuses Rival of Building Competing AI Heart Tech on Stolen Secrets

April 23, 2026

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