Anup Shrinivasan Iyer

Anup maintains a sophisticated intellectual property practice, with experience that encompasses patent preparation and prosecution, patent searching, freedom-to-operate opinions, and infringement analysis, to due diligence analysis, invalidity opinions, and trademark clearance and registration. He advises clients on crucial IP considerations surrounding technologies such as semiconductors, optical communications, artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and high-performance computing. Anup also has significant experience navigating and advising on patent eligibility matters related to Alice.

In addition to his IP counsel, Anup leverages his acute understanding of developments in AI to advise clients on the full spectrum of legal issues surrounding the development, adoption, and use of AI-based technology products and services.

Before launching his law practice, Anup was a patent agent at Moore & Van Allen.  To broaden and enhance this experience, he earned his J.D. the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then returned to practice as a member of the firm’s IP Group.

With a master’s degree in electrical engineering, Anup also often leverages takeaways from his research on mitigating optical fiber nonlinearities using machine learning techniques and work on implement machine learning techniques to analyze gait in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) for a more accurate diagnosis.

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Affiliations

• United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Agent
• South Asian Bar Association of North Carolina, Board Member

Publications

• Author, “Navigating data challenges and compliance in AI initiatives,” Reuters and Westlaw Today, January 2024
• Author, “Future Paths for AI Inventorship After Justices' Thaler Denial,” Law360, September 2023
• Co-author, “Drafting Patent Claims for AI-based Inventions: Navigating Eligibility and Precision,” Reuters and Westlaw Today, August 2023
• Author, “How to Get Around the AI Trust Paradox in Legal Practice,” Bloomberg Law, August 2023
• Co-author, “Analysis of gait in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus,” mHealthSys ‘11: Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare, Article No. 3, Pages 1-6, November 2011