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From meeting with colleagues over video chat, to consulting with doctors on a tablet, to adjusting the thermostat or depositing a check with a smartphone, people are connecting and interfacing at an unprecedented level. Communication has never been easier or more complex. As developers bring to market technologies that a few years ago could only be imagined, they often spur intriguing intellectual property challenges. Finnegan has always worked with companies pushing technological boundaries, advocating to help mold the law to accommodate novel innovations. Historical experience gives us perspective and foresight as we work with companies building solutions to bridge distances and facilitate stronger connections.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Media
With new media platforms constantly being created, content providers and distributors are tasked with protecting their content and technology in an everchanging landscape.
Experience
Persuaded the court that asserted claims directed to an alleged form of geofencing technology were ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The court found the patent invalid and dismissed the case against client Audi with prejudice in the first instance.
4:25-cv-11147, E.D. Mich., Judge Behm
Obtained a $240 million jury verdict for client Promptu in a patent infringement lawsuit against Comcast. The jury found that Comcast willfully infringed Promptu’s patents covering voice recognition technology for TV.
2:16-cv-06516, E.D. Pa., Judge Sanchez
22-1939, Fed. Cir., Judges Prost, Moore, Taranto
Represented LG Electronics in Investigation concerning certain media technologies in smartphones and televisions, home theater systems, Blu-ray disc players, and tablets. Following trial, all four asserted patents were found not infringed and/or invalid.
337-TA-882, ITC, Judge Shaw
Finnegan represents BrainCo, a developer of brain-machine interface (BMI) wearables that combine electroencephalography (EEG) signal processing with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to enable users to control electronic devices using brain signals. The firm works with BrainCo to develop and implement its intellectual property strategy, including drafting and prosecuting utility and design patent applications, in support of the company’s efforts to build a robust patent portfolio covering innovations and designs related to BMI technologies used in toys, smart home appliances, and robotic devices.
Representing a multinational technology company in developing its artificial intelligence (AI) and neural processing units (NPUs) portfolio, including preparing new patent applications and prosecuting before the patent office.
