Anthony (Toney) builds patent portfolios that enable rapid client growth and success. He develops custom, proactive IP strategies to address the specific needs and challenges facing his clients, which range from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. His practice further involves helping 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.

Toney is a leading artificial intelligence IP attorney who specializes in generative content creation and detection, machine-learning, autonomous vehicle and robot operation and navigation, and data analytics. Toney understands that companies in these industries expect their attorneys to be fluent in their technologies and maintains a comprehensive knowledge in technical developments in the field of AI generally, and at the intersection of AI and law specifically.

Toney develops sophisticated patent portfolios for life sciences companies with machine-learning platforms, including companies focusing on therapeutic discovery, diagnostics, protein design and biologic drug engineering. By strategically targeting and framing the innovation of these companies, Toney has obtained granted patents covering fundamental aspects of each company’s business, protecting cutting-edge technological pipelines and creating robust defensive IP portfolios.

Toney also counsels new 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.