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Robert Plotkin

Founding Partner

Blueshift IP

Robert Plotkin is a founding partner of Blueshift IP: Software Patent Experts. He is a trailblazer in IP protection for AI technology and AI-fueled inventions. As described in his book, AI Armor, he obtains software patents for growing tech companies to maximize value for revenue generation, fundraising, and successful exits. Innovative companies come to him to secure protection for their most cutting-edge and valuable technologies. He writes and speaks frequently on the AI revolution and its implications for innovation and intellectual property law and practice.

 

Recent Articles by Robert Plotkin

Uncovering Valuable AI Assets: A Strategic Guide for AI Companies and Patent Attorneys

Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands at the forefront of innovation, transforming industries and shaping the future of global economies. Although AI innovators understand the value of intellectual property (IP) protection for their innovations, they often don’t know how to secure the right kind of IP protection for their innovations. Employing a process for systematically mining AI innovations to create a map of those innovations is one option for identifying the most suitable form(s) of IP protection to obtain, based on the innovation and the business model within which that innovation will be commercially deployed.

Top 10 Software Patent Myths and How to Free Yourself from Them

The first software patent was granted in 1968. It’s now been three decades since the “Year of the Algorithm” in 1994, when cases such as In re Allapat, In re Lowry, and In re Beauregard initiated a wave of software patents. Well over half of U.S. patents granted annually are at least “software-related,” and even a cursory search of U.S. patents reveals software patents in fields ranging from encryption to speech recognition to network security. Why, then, do so many people continue to think that software cannot be patented at all? What explains the stark contrast between the long-standing legal reality and the beliefs of otherwise well-informed engineers, high-tech business people, and even some lawyers?