Joseph Drish focuses his practice on high-tech patent preparation and prosecution. Joe practices in matters involving wireless networking and communications, video coding, extended reality, information security (e.g., blockchain), system design, digital fabrication, hardware accelerators, semiconductors, 3D printing, neural networks, and many other areas, as well as in the standardization of these technologies.
Joe has significant patent litigation experience that informs his perspective for his patent preparation and prosecution practice such as for determining patent enforcement potential when drafting and prosecuting a case, including claim chart preparation, source code inspections, product teardowns, method simulations, prefiling investigations with claim construction analysis, discovery, licensing and settlement discussions, deposition preparation, expert report preparation, and legal research. Joe has successfully defended the intellectual property rights of patent holders in inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO, as well as in patent litigation cases in federal courts throughout the United States.
Joe has an MBA, which further informs his approach to his patent preparation and prosecution practice, in particular with regards to portfolio management, cost and workflow efficiency, understanding client pain points, and international cooperation. While in business school Joe studied abroad at the London School of Economics.
Joe’s technical background includes an MS in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He researched the application of support vector machines to classification tasks including speech recognition, and the implementation of the expectation-maximization algorithm for handwriting recognition.
Prior to practicing patent law, Joe held positions as a technology analyst for an international financial services company and as a systems analyst for a management consulting firm. While in law school, Joe interned in the legal department of a global medical device company.