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Ana Spone

Associate

Troutman Pepper

Ana Spone is an associate at Troutman Pepper in the Intellectual Property practice. She received her JD from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.

Recent Articles by Ana Spone

Is an Autonomous Vehicle Patent War Revving Up?

Autonomous vehicles are paving the way as the next big innovation in personal transportation. With new technology, first comes the excitement of breakthroughs in any industry. Then comes the patent litigation arguments over who owns the technology and who can profit off the patents related to the technology. We are seeing this pattern again and perhaps the beginning of the self-driving cars patent wars. Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the patentability of all challenged claims in a patent held by Velodyne LiDAR, Inc., one of just a handful of companies that makes LiDAR (light detection and ranging) systems for self-driving cars.