Portfolio Strategy and Management

• Managed a multi-family patent portfolio spanning several technology categories for a software company, from initial filing through allowance.*
• Developed continuation and continuation-in-part strategies for technology companies to expand protection around their core platforms.*
• Counseled a SaaS company on continuation strategy, portfolio budgeting and prosecution timelines.*
• Advised a technology company on European patent validation strategy.*
• Analyzed which client innovations were best protected by patents versus trade secrets.*
• Led innovation harvesting sessions with engineering teams to identify patentable inventions and prioritize filings against business objectives.*

Artificial Intelligence and Software

• Prepared and prosecuted patent applications covering artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, including model training, data processing and automated decision systems.*
• Prosecuted patent applications for software, cloud computing and telecommunications technologies, including responses to subject matter eligibility rejections.*
• Drafted patent applications for technologies that apply machine learning to biological and chemical processes, including optimization of bioextraction methods.*

Hardware, Mechanical and Clean Technology

• Drafted patent applications directed to carbon capture and gas purification systems.*
• Prepared and prosecuted patent applications for automation, robotics, optics, computer hardware and circuit technologies.*

Licensing and Strategic Transactions

• Advised a polymer coatings company on intellectual property considerations in a manufacturing partnership.*

* Tyler Anne handled the above representations prior to joining Foley Hoag.

Involvement

• Boston Intellectual Property Law Association, Member

• Panelist, "IP & Fashion Career Panel," Art & Fashion Law Society, New England Law | Boston (March 2025)