Overview
Brian M. Graham is a Partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. His practice includes strategic IP procurement and portfolio management for clients, with an emphasis on cutting edge machine learning techniques and applications. He provides guidance on due diligence and general counseling on infringement, licensing, international IP protection.
In 2024 Brian taught a workshop on prosecution of software / EE innovations at the Silicon Valley Patent Office for the yearly American Intellectual Property Law Association’s (AIPLA) Patent Bootcamp. In 2019, Brian took Stanford’s graduate-level ‘Deep Learning’ computer science course – CS230. For his final project, his team created a substantially state of the art image processing / compression codebase. He obtained his Master’s degree from Georgia Tech in ECE while performing research with the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE). While earning his Bachelor’s degree, he was a member of research groups specializing in computer vision. After graduate school, he was employed by Northrop Grumman as an engineer on the Global Hawk Unmanned Air Vehicle project.
Education
- The George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2013)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009)
- University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB) (B.S. Computer Engineering, 2007)
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Recognized in the “Best Lawyers 2025 Guide: Ones to Watch” for Patent Law in Best Lawyers in America (2024)
News & Insights
Articles
AIPLA Legislative Proposal to Overrule Recent §101 Caselaw