Robert Plotkin

For over 25 years, patent attorney Robert Plotkin has secured patents for his clients’ innovative software – but he doesn’t stop there. He then guides them in deploying those patents to withstand the pressures of new competitors and the world’s largest tech companies – and to win historic patent sales and licenses. A lifelong AI aficionado and MIT computer science graduate, Robert possesses a unique technical background among lawyers. He secures and leverages IP to attract investment, raise funds, generate revenue, and secure successful exits on behalf of his high-tech clients.

Decades ahead of his time, Robert first shared his AI patent strategies in 2009’s The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-Automated Inventing is Revolutionizing Law and Business. Now, 15 years later, amidst a global AI frenzy, Robert reveals his systematic approach for obtaining and leveraging IP protection for AI technology in his latest book, AI Armor: Securing the Future of Your AI Company With Strategic Intellectual Property.

Robert owns 25+ patents and patent applications himself, and is a National Law Journal IP Trailblazer and an IP Super Lawyer.

Robert is the co-founder of the boutique patent firm, Blueshift IP, located in Cambridge, MA. He is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston University School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and New York and is registered to practice at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.