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Lab-to-Market Patent Protection for Students, Professors, and Universities

Your breakthrough university research and innovations need proactive legal protection. We help you protect and profit from your intellectual property.

Discover the Blueshift IP difference:

  • Access strategic patent guidance from an MIT graduate with decades of patent law experience in niches such as quantum computing and AI
  • Explore the patentability of your university inventions with lawyers recognized for their patent work with schools across the country
  • Create dynamic, comprehensive patents covering your innovation from idea to launch
  • Build a patent portfolio that is designed to generate licensing revenue for the university and its spinoff companies

SOFTWARE & AI PATENT ATTORNEYS FOR UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE USA & WORLDWIDE

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Our Services

Patent Strategies Tailored to Students, Researchers, & Institutions

Secure patent strategies from industry leaders with decades of patent law experience. The Blueshift IP team helps you obtain, license, and litigate patents, maximizing the value of your intellectual property. Our approach is founded upon our patent research and development work, helping institutions build intellectual property policies.

Representing MIT and other groundbreaking research teams, we empower innovators and build highly profitable patent programs.

OUR PAST WORK WITH UNIVERSITIES INCLUDES PATENT GUIDANCE FOR:

Software Patents

AI Patents

Quantum Computing Patents

Machine Learning Patents

Patents for Apps

Telecommunications Patents

Robert Plotkin, one of the company’s founders, is one of a handful of U.S. patent attorneys to both educate institutional stakeholders on patent law and obtain valuable patents for institutions.

Our Process

We create strong protection for the inventions of educators, students, and departments.

Our universities are hubs of invention and innovation. Whether you’re a student, professor, or school administrator, you’re here because you have a breakthrough and need legal assistance guiding your product through the patent process. That’s where we come in. Our collaborative working process involves learning about your technology and its future development. We build dynamic, comprehensive patents to protect and maximize the value of your intellectual property at each market stage, from initial prototyping through to global commercialization.

For Professors and Students

To help patent your innovations, you require a patent lawyer with comprehensive legal and technical expertise. Blueshift IP cofounder Robert Plotkin created and taught the course “Software and the Law” at the Boston University School of Law. He has also provided professional education to lawyers through the Practicing Law Institute and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE). He and fellow co-founder Cynthia Gilbert help innovators safeguard their intellectual property with patents that scale with their IP development process.

For University Administrators

Patent licensing for technology is an under-developed, untapped market. Your institution leaves a large amount of revenue on the table if you’re unable to patent inventions developed using your resources. In a market where institutes of higher learning seek to diversify revenue streams, you now have an unparalleled growth opportunity. Blueshift IP has developed intellectual property policies for universities across the country and developed patent portfolios designed to maximize licensing revenue.

IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR THE FOLLOWING, CALL BLUESHIFT IP TO DISCUSS THE PATENT PROCESS:

Patents to maximize innovation value for financing, company acquisition, IP, and licensing agreements
Patents to protect your technology from competitors
Patent applications written to maximize the defense against IP claims
Patents to protect your innovation against future technology development
Scalable patents that evolve with your business goals
Selective patent analysis to assure the highest ROI
Prioritization of intellectual property assets to focus on long-term value
Expert communication of IP and development strategies ready to engage investors, partners, and other outside stakeholders
Educating your institutional team regarding the IP process so all contributions can be utilized and honed ready to be included in the patent process

Robust defensive patent enforcement to protect against other companies making patent claims

THE BLUESHIFT IP SERVICE ADVANTAGE

Our legal team specializes in university technology patents. We have vast experience supporting institutions across the country in filing patents for machine learning, AI, and quantum computing.

Blueshift IP cofounder Robert Plotkin holds a degree in computer science and engineering from MIT. While fellow cofounder Cynthia Gilbert holds a degree in computer science and mathematical philosophy from Brandeis University.

AS A BLUESHIFT IP CLIENT, YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO:

Legal experts with experience filing patents for universities, students, and educators
A worldwide network of international law firms to enforce your intellectual property patents globally
A scalable patent process built to grow with your innovation and its market value
Patent strategists to help protect your intellectual property against competitors
In addition, we also obtain software patents internationally. Our extensive, hand-selected network of leading international law firms provides our clients with the necessary breadth and depth to create, grow, manage, and enforce software patent portfolios worldwide in every jurisdiction. We maintain close relationships with all of our foreign law firms so that our clients obtain responsive, effective, and efficient service, whether filing a single patent application in a foreign country, enforcing a patent in a foreign court, or selling an entire patent portfolio in a multinational transaction.
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CLIENT SUCCESSES

Hear what our clients have to say about Blueshift IP

We strive to provide clients with strong, defensible patents.
Over the past three decades, I have worked with more than twenty patent attorneys at several big law firms in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia on a wide range of intellectual property matters. When it comes to intellectual property strategy and patent prosecution for computer-related technologies, Robert is the best of the best.
Steven K. Gold, M.D.Serial Entrepreneur
Attorney Cynthia Gilbert has worked with us closely for over five years, developing our patent portfolio, which has served as a cornerstone of our company’s competitive advantage. Ms. Gilbert easily engaged with us on highly complex, technical details of our cryptography-based inventions, revealed exactly where our technology was most innovative and differentiated, and obtained several critical and highly valuable software patents in the US and internationally for our company.
Will AckerlyFounder, Virtru Corporation
In growing from a small, Cambridge start-up to a well-established video advertising company working with some of the largest brands in the world, we have relied on Cynthia’s legal expertise to develop a patent portfolio that supports our business objectives. She takes the time to learn our business, engages on key technical details with ease, and provides the tactical and strategic insights that help us understand and navigate the legal process to create a valuable patent portfolio.
Bettina HeinFounder and CEO, Pixability, Inc.
Robert takes the time to understand our business and our technology in depth. As a result, he tailors our patent strategy to our business goals as they evolve, instead of applying a cookie-cutter approach. He is solution-oriented and has helped our company to develop an international patent portfolio covering our core technologies in our key markets worldwide. We consider him to be a part of our team.
Juergen FritschChief Scientist M*Modal

Our People

Our founders are passionate educators dedicated to supporting innovation through technology and software patent development

Cynthia Gilbert and Robert Plotkin have decades of experience as educators and technologists. As forthright patent prosecutors and highly acclaimed computer scientists, they help nurture discovery and development, while forging a path for market success.

Robert Plotkin

Attorney

Cynthia Gilbert

Attorney

PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS

Awards & accolades of our founding partners

Both our founding partners were recognized as IP Trailblazers by The National Law Journal

The “IP Trailblazers” recognition is given to only a tiny fraction of IP lawyers in the US who are recognized as innovative leaders. Being a small boutique patent law firm, it is an honor that both our founding partners were bestowed this recognition and included alongside some of the largest and most well-known prestigious patent law firms in the country.

The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-Automated Inventing is Revolutionizing Law and Business by Robert Plotkin

A book about the impact of AI on patent law, written by Robert Plotkin, which was published by Stanford University Press in 2009. Robert has been writing about AI and patents for over two decades, firmly establishing him as a thought leader in the field of developing strategies for AI patents well before the topic advanced to the forefront of the industry.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

American Law Media has recognized Cynthia Gilbert as a 2021 and 2022 Woman Leader in Law.

Cynthia Gilbert and Robert Plotkin were selected for inclusion in the 2021 and 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers List as “Top Rated Intellectual Property” Attorneys published by Thomson Reuters. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

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