Benjamin Aitken’s practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution. He drafts and prosecutes patent applications across a broad range of technologies, including networking infrastructure, semiconductors, generative and discriminative machine learning, media processing and generation, databases, cloud computing, and business methods, as well as design patents.
Ben earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, and his B.A. in English from James Madison University. He uses his engineering background to understand the technical details of clients’ inventions and to work closely with inventors from the initial disclosure call through filing.
Before working as a patent attorney, Ben served as a Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined applications in the business methods field, including applications directed to encrypted transactions. Having evaluated applications from the examiner’s side, Ben anticipates how the Office is likely to view a claim and shapes prosecution strategy accordingly.
During law school, Ben developed his legal research and drafting skills as a legal intern with the United States Coast Guard’s Operations Law Group, where he worked on issues ranging from the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace to enforcement authority over foreign-flagged vessels. He is admitted to practice in New York and is registered to practice before the USPTO.