Karthik Kovi Subramanian has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications across a wide range of electrical, electronics, telecommunications, and software technologies. He has procured patents for clients ranging from individual inventors to large corporations. Karthik's patent prosecution experience includes wireless telecommunications and next-generation network infrastructure, including 5G and related technologies, Radio Access Networks (RAN), network security, SIM and mobile-device provisioning, mobile devices and applications, and computer networking. His experience also encompasses artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), cloud and edge computing, blockchain and distributed-ledger technologies, and enterprise and consumer software. In addition, Karthik has experience with sound processing and rendering, electrical and electronic circuits, integrated circuit designs and layouts, medical devices, financial-services technologies, graphical user interfaces, web applications, and other software-based technologies.
Karthik is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has over 20 years of patent preparation and prosecution experience. Prior to joining the Intellectual Property team at Baker Botts, he worked as a technical advisor for approximately ten years with a boutique patent firm with seven offices across the United States. In that role, Karthik prepared and prosecuted patent applications involving a broad spectrum of telecommunications, networking, electronics, and software technologies.
Prior to that, Karthik worked for approximately three years as a Senior Intellectual Property Consultant at the Bangalore, India development facility of SAP Labs, the research and development organization of SAP, a multinational software company and leading provider of enterprise software. At SAP Labs, Karthik coordinated with engineering teams and in-house counsel to develop patent strategies, analyzed invention disclosures and made filing recommendations, and supervised SAP's foreign patent application filings and prosecution, in addition to preparing and prosecuting SAP's U.S. patent applications. His work at SAP provided substantial exposure to enterprise software, distributed computing, and other software technologies used to manage complex business operations.
Karthik is also registered to practice before the Indian Patent Office and previously worked as a patent agent for approximately two years with a boutique patent firm in New Delhi, India.
