Brandi Sarfatis

Brandi Sarfatis, one of Akona IP’s founders, has decades of experience in the procurement of domestic and foreign patents and domestic trademark registrations. Specializing in intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, and trade secret law, she has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of original United States patent applications covering inventions in a wide range of technological fields. A trusted partner in developing intellectual property strategies for protecting and commercializing technology, Brandi also has extensive experience counseling clients regarding patent validity, infringement, and development of non-infringing alternatives to patented technology, as well as developing strategies for obtaining, enforcing, and defending intellectual property rights.

Brandi’s areas of technical expertise include computer architecture and processor design, autonomous systems, computer graphics and media, industrial and product designs, digital health, medical imaging systems, biomedical devices, analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits, industrial automation, computer memory and storage technologies, semiconductor device packaging, semiconductor manufacturing, internet of things, sensors, smart home technologies, machine learning, virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems, cloud computing infrastructure and operations, biosensors, and signals processing.