AI Week 2025 | Patents in the Age of AI: Navigating the Changing Landscape (ONLINE)

Join the Georgia Tech Library online Thursday, Oct. 16 from 2 to 3 p.m. for the fourth event in AI Week 2025, a seminar titled Patents in the Age of AI: Navigating the Changing Landscape.

Led by Intellectual Property Attorney John Lunsford, this seminar explores the multifaceted role of AI in the patent ecosystem. With its rapid advancement, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in intellectual property processes and is raising complex questions and challenges. 

Key topics covered in the session include patentability of AI-generated inventions, AI tools in patent landscape analysis, and utilizing AI tools for drafting patent applications. 

This seminar aims to promote a better understanding of the impact of AI on the patent landscape.

ABOUT JOHN LUNSFORD
John Lunsford is an intellectual property (IP) attorney with more than a decade of experience. Prior to practicing law, Lunsford worked for 12 years as a professional software developer. He has developed applications that utilize machine learning for natural language processing, semantic indexing, error correction, record de-duplication, facial recognition, and real-time analytics. Since passing the bar exam in 2015, Lunsford has practiced IP law, with a special focus on patent law and AI/Machine Learning (ML)-related inventions. 

He is currently employed as in-house counsel by F5, Inc. At F5, in addition to advising the company on IP-related matters, Lunsford leads an initiative to leverage AI to improve the efficiency of the company’s legal department. As a part of this initiative, he has developed software that uses transformer models to semantically search patent portfolios and to summarize inventions. In addition, he has developed custom AI agents to answer questions about company policies and he has also used large reasoning models to assist in patent drafting. Lunsford has given presentations on understanding artificial intelligence and machine learning to audiences of both software developers and legal professionals.

ABOUT AI WEEK 2025
The Library’s AI Week 2025 is a mix of panel discussions and seminars aimed at celebrating and investigating the myriad ways researchers, students and faculty harness the burgeoning technology. To learn more about other events in the series, click here.