Carl Kukkonen is a respected leader in the legal field, acknowledged as one of the IAM Strategy 300: World's Leading IP Strategists. With more than 25 years of experience, he has been pivotal in assisting clients in developing strong, litigation-ready patent portfolios, effectively reduce risks through invalidity and freedom-to-operate analyses, and adeptly plan and execute litigation strategies, including inter partes reviews (IPRs). Moreover, Carl conducts due diligence for financing and M&A transactions, offers valuable support in IP partnering agreements, and provides thoughtful guidance on brand protection matters.

As a co-leader of the Firm's artificial intelligence (AI) team, Carl advises clients on diverse IP issues arising out of the use of AI including copyright, trade secret, and patent issues.  His high-tech experience encompasses AI technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) with large language models, and computer vision.  In addition to advising on diverse IP issues regarding AI, Carl has further assisted clients in obtaining AI-related patents database technologies, ridesharing, robotics, enterprise software, cloud computing, blockchains, mobile software and hardware, telecommunications, IoT (Internet of Things), semiconductors, nanotechnology, optical devices, computer architectures, virtual/augmented reality, and signal/image processing.