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Richard P. Dodson is a USPTO-registered patent agent (Reg. No. 52,824) whose practice centers on patent prosecution and counseling across software and hardware technologies, including computer networking, cloud computing infrastructure, distributed systems, data mining and data science, machine learning and LLMs, security and encryption, and secure transaction processing. He partners closely with counsel to translate complex technology into defensible IP assets and practical risk management. He brings a data-driven, results-oriented approach informed by three decades as a technologist and more than twenty years serving Am Law firms and Fortune 500 clients.
Richard previously spent more than a decade with Kilpatrick supporting patent prosecution, litigation, and licensing for enterprise and research clients. Prior to rejoining the firm, he practiced at a Seattle-based boutique and worked as a senior consultant designing foundational systems and IP strategies for high-impact projects in AI, 5G, and Fintech. Earlier in his career, he spent ten years as a software developer and systems architect in the wireless telecommunications industry and co-founded a wireless infrastructure services provider.
University of Colorado at Boulder M.A., Mathematics (2009)
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia B.E., Electrical and Electronic (1991) with honors
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2003)
Active in the start-up community; supports emerging companies in building foundational intellectual property portfolios.
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