Toney partners with boundary-pushing clients to build custom, proactive intellectual property portfolios that align with their unique needs and goals and enable rapid client growth and success. He is a leading artificial intelligence IP attorney who understands both the technical developments in the field of AI generally, and how AI intersects with patent law specifically.

Toney’s clients range from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 players and span the robotics, life sciences, AI, and climatetech arenas. He helps clients efficiently navigate the complicated world of intellectual property protection and enforcement matters, developing streamlined internal patent programs for companies, and growing and maintaining portfolios ranging from fewer than five patent assets to more than a thousand. He works with life sciences companies that leverage machine learning platforms to strategically frame these innovations and secure patents for cutting-edge technological drug development pipelines and create robust defensive IP portfolios. Life360 valued the patent portfolio that Toney built from scratch for Tile and brought Toney on to manage the patent portfolio for all Life360 entities in the wake of the Tile acquisition. Blue River, an autonomous agricultural robotics company, has relied on Toney’s strategic patent advice throughout the company’s life cycle—from the earliest years to their present post-acquisition successes.

He is particularly involved with the startup community and has advised companies participating in various startup incubators. He has helped develop IP strategies for multiple Y Combinator companies and is listed as the top choice for IP attorneys in the Y Combinator hardware user manual. Toney also builds patent portfolios for a number of Flagship Pioneering companies and likewise works with several Runway Incubator and Playground Global companies.