Alex Yuhelps clients manage and grow their patent portfolios and handlesdisputes before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)and the Federal Circuit. This broad experience enables him to support his clients through the full range of proceedings available at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Officeand resulting appeals.
In his patent prosecution and portfolio management practice, Alex emphasizes deeply understandinghis clients’ technology and business goals to help them develop protection strategies that cover the lifecycle of their patents. Beyond prosecution, Alexalso works with his clients to guide innovation strategies and mitigate risk through strategic counseling, freedom-to-operate studies, and due diligence investigations.
In contentious matters, Alex represents clients in disputes before the PTAB and in appeals to the Federal Circuit. His appellate practice is backed by lessons learned as a clerk for the Honorable Raymond Chen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Alex has advised clients ranging from individual inventors and start-ups to multinational companies and has worked on matters spanning technologies including robotics and autonomous vehicles, medical devices, machine learning, manufacturing, semiconductors, software, and video encoding and graphics processing.
Before practicing law, Alex conducted graduate research at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering on wearable robotics and served as a research and development engineer for a large medical device company.
Outside the office, Alex enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, running, reading, and playing video games.
