By Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
As a market and thought leader in the technology sector, Sterne Kessler helps clients develop comprehensive intellectual property (IP) solutions that protect innovation, foster growth, and maximize value in emerging technology domains, including quantum computing. Quantum computing is moving from theoretical research to commercial reality, and the IP decisions companies make today will decide who leads and who follows. With quantum hardware maturing across superconducting, photonic, trapped-ion, and silicon spin qubit modalities, and as quantum software stacks, classical-quantum architectures, and error-correction move toward practical utility, competitive advantage increasingly depends on the strength and scope of a company’s patent portfolio. Sterne Kessler’s multidisciplinary team provides strategic patent counseling spanning patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio development and management, and high-stakes post-grant proceedings and patent litigation. We have drafted and prosecuted thousands of patent applications involving cutting-edge technologies for numerous Fortune 100 companies. We have also represented clients in significant disputes in federal district courts, before the International Trade Commission, and in post-grant proceedings, including inter partes reviews and reexaminations, before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). For companies investing in quantum technologies, whether pioneering novel qubit architectures, developing quantum algorithms for optimization and simulation, or building the enabling infrastructure involving cryogenics, control electronics, and quantum networking — a failure to develop a comprehensive IP strategy now risks ceding market position during one of the most consequential technology shifts of the century. Our Electronics Practice Group has deep experience in the underlying hardware and systems technologies that quantum computing depends on, including semiconductor processes and devices, integrated circuits, optoelectronics, photonics, lasers, nanotechnologies, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), cryptography, control and error correction software, and computer architecture. We bring specific quantum computing expertise, including preparing and prosecuting patent applications in quantum computing fundamentals.
