Ryan N. Phelan is a partner and registered patent lawyer with the Chicago-based intellectual property boutique law firm Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP. He works with clients in all areas of intellectual property, focusing on patents, to achieve their business objectives, including developing and protecting their innovations and businesses with IP. He represents numerous startup and Fortune 500 clients with patent matters in technical areas and industries, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, medical devices, biometrics data and services, virtual reality, imaging, internet and e-commerce, computer networking, data storage and management, encryption and security, mobile telecommunications, consumer electronics, insurance and finance applications, mechanical devices, among others. He oversees Marshall Gerstein’s PatentNext blog about patent and IP law, focusing on next-generation and New Age technologies.