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Samir Raiyani
Samir Raiyani is the CEO and founder of IP Author, a Fremont, California legal-technology company using generative AI and large language models to automate patent drafting, office-action responses, prior-art search and evidence-of-use analysis for patent attorneys and corporate IP teams. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and serial entrepreneur, he previously founded and ran Dolcera, one of the world's largest patent-analytics firms, was a Director at SAP Research in Palo Alto, and founded the healthcare startup MediSpark. With more than a dozen patent applications to his name, Raiyani has spent two decades at the intersection of intellectual property and software, and now positions IP Author as a human-centered AI co-pilot that cuts patent drafting time by 40-60% while keeping the attorney in control.
Chris Parsonson
Chris Parsonson is the co-founder and CEO of Solve Intelligence, an AI platform for patent professionals that he started in 2023 after finishing a machine learning PhD at UCL. He built the company alongside his brother Angus and fellow UCL researcher Sanj Ahilan, ran it profitably to $10M+ in revenue with a single salesperson, and raised over $55M from Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Y Combinator and 20VC. His work turns deep optimisation research into software that drafts and analyses patents for 400+ IP teams across six continents.
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