Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Time: 10 A.M. Pacific / 12 P.M. Central / 1 P.M. Eastern

Place: Virtual - Zoom

Cost: Complimentary

CLE Credit: We will apply for 1.0 hours of CLE credit for Minnesota, California, Texas and Washington state

This webinar, presented by Kent Richardson of the Richardson Oliver Law Group (ROL Group), will explore current trends in patent licensing, valuation, and monetization, with a focus on AI-related technologies. This session will also discuss the use of AI based tools and analytics for evaluating patent portfolios and analyzing patent risk. 

Kent Richardson counsels clients on a variety of patent and business matters, including patent buying, selling, licensing, valuation, prosecution, and operations. He provides data-driven advice using his firm’s proprietary database of patent market information covering 355,000 patent assets. He has licensing and marketing patent portfolio experience, resulting in more than $1B worth of patent license bookings. Mr. Richardson has served as an expert witness on patent monetization and licensing practices in UK and US cases. 

Robert Hirning is a registered patent attorney and a principal at SLW. His practice involves nearly all aspects of patent application preparation, patent prosecution, and portfolio management. He has experience in technology areas including consumer electronic devices, software-driven medical devices, data storage, medical imaging products, applied artificial intelligence, health information systems, consumer products, agriculture technologies, and various niche fields. His legal experience also includes general intellectual property and transactional counseling, due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, portfolio valuation and analysis, strategic licensing, and trade secret, copyright, and open source software license counseling.