Sumedha Ahuja Partner

Sumedha Ahuja, firmwide co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning industry group, focuses on strategic patent portfolio management and patent prosecution with specific emphasis on computer software, internet, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) inventions. She has successfully drafted and prosecuted patent applications for both large corporations and startups at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and foreign patent offices.

Sumedha has an extensive engineering and scientific background and a keen understanding of diverse technological areas, including telecommunications; digital health; virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed realities (MR); advertising and behavioral analysis; search and search result processing; fintech and blockchain; Internet of Things (IoT); cloud computing; and virtual computing. In addition to procuring patents in these fields, Sumedha evaluates third-party patent portfolios, counsels clients on avoiding patent infringement, and mines client patent portfolios to identify assets for licensing/monetization, patent infringement counterclaims, and divestment. Sumedha has also represented both patent owners and petitioners before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in post-grant proceedings.

Prior to practicing law, Sumedha was a software engineer at Sapient Corp., where she designed, developed, and deployed software solutions for large enterprise clients. As a graduate student at McGill University, Sumedha was a member of both the Mobile Robotics Lab and the Reasoning and Learning Lab, where she focused her research on developing recommendation systems using various machine learning techniques.