Sumedha Ahuja

Sumedha Ahuja, co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence industry group, focuses on patent issues and has spent her legal career on the development, execution, and enforcement of worldwide market exclusivity strategies for products and technologies that are the core assets of AI and software companies of all sizes. She draws on hands-on engineering and scientific experience developing AI and machine learning solutions to help clients protect their IP in these fields. She also has extensive experience in other technology areas, including cybersecurity; telecommunications; digital health; virtual, augmented, and mixed realities; advertising and behavioral analysis; search and search result processing; fintech and blockchain; Internet of Things; cloud computing; and virtual computing. She is also adept at counseling clients to help turn those assets into business opportunities, such as capital transactions, strategic partnerships, and product acquisitions. 

Sumedha is recognized as a leading lawyer by numerous organizations, including Chambers USA, where clients praise her for “being highly skilled and extremely committed to her clients' needs,” her “expert-engineer level knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence,” “[understanding] the intersection of AI patenting better than anyone I have come across,” being “astonishingly perceptive in understanding AI” due to her software engineering background, and having a “really great background to support emerging technologies.” She is also consistently named to the IAM Patent 1000 list for guiding clients through risks and challenges in computer software and AI: “Sumedha is skilled and dedicated. She is a leader in cutting-edge patent matters like AI and ML.”

Prior to practicing law, Sumedha was a software engineer at Sapient Corp., where she designed, developed, and deployed software solutions for large enterprise clients.