Cynthia M Gilbert

Trained at a prominent national firm, by leading practitioners in the field, I am honored to have worked for clients ranging from the smallest start-ups to billion-dollar companies and I bring a lifelong passion for technology to my work with each and every client. I believe in developing and executing IP strategies rooted in business realities and work to enlighten my clients as to the business implications of their IP decisions.

Suffolk University Law School

J.D.

2000 - 2004

Evening Division

Honors: graduated cum laude; Intellectual Property Concentration; Dean's List 2000-2004

Brandeis University

B.A. | Computer Science, Philosophy

1996 - 2000

Activities: Varsity Fencing

Founding Partner

Blueshift IP

2017 - Current

As a lifelong technophile, I am passionate about the intersection of law and technology. I strive to work with companies to develop business-oriented intellectual property that protects their innovative work. My practice therefore focuses on strategic development, protection, and management of patent portfolios for clients in a variety of high technology areas, including computer and computer-related technologies, artificial intelligence, digital health, network security and architecture, virtualization/containerization, and remote access technologies.

Principal

Hyperion Law

2010 - 2017

Ms. Gilbert's practice focuses on the strategic development of patent portfolios for a range of companies in all stages of the invention life cycle: computer technology start-ups, emerging companies, and established public companies. She has developed deep experience across a wide range of technology disciplines, including virtualization, application delivery, network security, computational linguistics and information retrieval, cloud computing, mobile technologies and applications, Web 2.0, distributed computing, operating systems, and communications infrastructure.

Associate

Choate, Hall & Stewart

2005 - 2010

- Contribute $850K in annual revenue (~2000 billable hours/year) through strategic development, protection, and management of 24 patent portfolios in nine countries for computer technology and life sciences start-ups, emerging companies, and established public companies - Passion for aligning client business goals and patent operations throughout service delivery, especially in crowded subject domains; in representative year, advice led to $300K in revenue - Support advanced diligence and analysis efforts for Firm's other lines of business - Support client business and legal decision-making with landscape analyses and non-infringement opinions - Draft and prosecute patent applications for clients providing application delivery, virtualization and cloud computing, computational linguistics, RFID-based solutions, Web 2.0 technologies, and bioinformatics

Associate

Lahive & Cockfield

2004 - 2005

On team of 6, support patent portfolio of $6.6B market cap public company by drafting patent applications directed to client-server computing, endpoint security analysis, and application virtualization

2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers Listing

Super Lawyers

2023

Top Women of Law 2023

Mass. Lawyers Weekly

2023

IP Trailblazers

The National Law Journal

2021

Massachusetts

Since 2004

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