The Swiss Army knife of lawyers | Strategic Legal Executive for Emerging Technologies

As Your Strategic Legal Partner, I focus on:

C-Suite Legal Leadership

  • Chief Legal Officer services for emerging technology organizations.
  • Fractional General Counsel from formation through Series A.
  • Executive-level strategic guidance for complex legal challenges.

Emerging Technology Governance

  • AI/ML legal framework development and implementation.
  • Cross-jurisdictional trust infrastructure for emerging technologies.
  • Real-time compliance systems for technologies that outpace regulation.

Strategic IP & Technology

  • Forward-thinking IP portfolio development that aligns with business goals .
  • Open source strategy balancing innovation with protection.
  • Complex technology transactions that advance market position.

Technical-Legal Bridge Building

  • Patent preparation and prosecution across complex technical domains.
  • Copyright and Trademark preparation and prosecution.
  • Bridging technical-legal-business perspectives for engineering innovation.
  • Vulnerability response protocols enhancing transparency while mitigation exposure.

Corporate Growth & Governance

  • Pre-seed to Series A investment framework architecture.
  • Corporate structuring and governance for rapid scaling.
  • Strategic partnerships and licensing for emerging tech standards.

Ghatak Jones, PLLC enables me to fulfill my vision of providing technology companies with a legal partner who rapidly adapts to complex challenges and architects solutions that propel innovation forward. My unique engineering-to-patent law-to-corporate law journey, allows me to bridge engineering and legal.

Current Focus: Serving as CLO for dual emerging technology organizations driving AI, XR, and technology governance while providing fractional general counsel services to growth-stage startups. Also serving as Of Counsel for patent and IP prep and prosecution.

I have conventional in-house experience as legal business partner for the Senior Vice President of AMD’s Central Engineering Office and the Corporate Vice President for AMD’s Product Security Office both under the purview of the CTO.

I have strategic hardware open source experience serving as legal chair for the Chips Alliance legal committee.

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