Stanford University
Economics, code, and claims
Technical specialist for AI, fintech & software patents
Stanford Economics · Data Science Minor·4.04 GPA·FE Passed·Patent Bar Eligible·2 Patents' Claims Drafted
Scroll — how I got here
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01 — Origin
★ Smithsonian Featured · Award-Winning
Gandhi & Thurman: The Art of Nonviolence
Directed and produced under Professor Clayborne Carson at Stanford’s World House Project. Screened at the Oprah Winfrey Theatre at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, featured on SMOGO TV, and taught in a graduate-level Stanford course.
One of four documentaries — two Smithsonian featured. Every one meant clearing archival footage, music, and imagery: rights requests, fair-use lines, licensing terms. That friction pointed me at IP.
→ “What She Did Not Say” — civil rights history essay02 — Immersion
At Stanford, the inventions worth protecting are not machines — they are algorithms, models, and market mechanisms, built in real time by the AI labs and startups around me.
Stanford IP Association · Undergraduate Representative
Organized an IP Law Panel at Stanford Law School
Lead-organized “The Ownership of Narrative: Civil Rights in IP Law” — a panel of IP scholars and executives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Suki AI.
Economics 30 · Interactive Data Essay
Built & Shipped a Full Econometrics Web App
“The Price of Integration” — harmonized Stats SA microdata, a 28-year unemployment map, and a full regression battery, shipped as a scroll-driven web app.
→ econ30finalproject.vercel.app
Honors Thesis · Economics 198
Honors Thesis on the Patent System, Built from USPTO Data
“Distance from the Frontier” — how the patent system distributes innovation, using the USPTO’s own data: a panel of ~2,000 counties (2001–2023) from PatentsView inventor records, relating inventorship gaps to assignee concentration and distance to innovation hubs.
→ Read the prospectus (PDF) · advised by Prof. Lukas Althoff
Python · SQL · C++ · JavaScript · Azure AI
03 — Practice
Schmeiser Olsen LLP · Law Clerk · IP Boutique
Authored Claims for 2 Patent Applications
Not coursework — prosecution. Claims defining scope of protection, drafted in coordination with the firm’s Managing Partner. The part of the job most candidates have never done.
Same Firm · Legal Engineering
7 AI Agents · 4 Automation Tools
Including a Trademark Specimen Evaluator and a Patent IDS Generator, for legal research and USPTO filing prep — plus a firm-wide site that puts the workflows in attorneys’ hands.
Fundamentals of Engineering — Passed · Patent Bar Eligible
04 — Trajectory
Hire a technical specialist already on the patent-agent track — one who has drafted claims.
- 01TodayTechnical specialist — AI, fintech, software & business-method patents
- 02Months 1–2Registered patent agent (patent bar eligible now)
- 03After 1–2 yearsLaw school → patent attorney, built inside your practice group
Off the clock: USA Powerlifting athlete (1,210 lb total) · professional electric guitarist · documentary filmmaker