Joseph Wolfe

AI/ML APPLICATION EXPERIENCE

• Deep learning processes for predictive modeling of sporting event outcomes given spatial event data from sporting events
• Predictive modeling via conditional variational autoencoders for simultaneously predicting trajectories of players during a sporting event given live player tracking data
• Classification of offensive and defensive team alignments given image data of a sporting event using a convolutional neural network
• Predictive modeling of player shot attempts using artificial neural networks and personalized embeddings
• Multi-modal prediction for a plurality of attributes of a subsequent possession using previous play-by-play information and a mixture density network
• Predictive modeling of a target team executing a target play using a combination of a variational autoencoder and neural network
• Applications directed natural language processing (NLP) technology for intelligent financial assistants

Chambers USA

• Associate to Watch, Pennsylvania Intellectual Property, (2025)

The Legal 500 United States

• Leading Associate, Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings), (2025)
• Rising Star, Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings), (2023 – 2024)
• Recommended, Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings), (2023)

Additional Recognitions

Super Lawyers

• Rising Star in Intellectual Property Pennsylvania, (2022 – 2023)

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• Co-author, "The quantum advantage: IP considerations for the next generation of life sciences innovation," Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review, January 27, 2026
• Co-author, "Subject Matter Eligibility Challenges With Requirements for Functional Claiming," Law.com, March 25, 2020 (with William Bartow)
• "Protecting AI technologies through patents: A US guide," May 6, 2020
• "Eligibility guidance in the wake of Alice: Clarity at the examiner stage, uncertainty in the Federal Circuit," December 22, 2020
• "Understanding the USPTO guidance on patenting AI technologies," March 29, 2021
• "Claim drafting strategies for artificial intelligence innovations," June 28, 2021
• "Enter the metaverse: Seeking patent protection for metaverse innovations," February 28, 2022

• "Roundtable: Patents and non-fungible tokens," USPTO, (2023)
• "What's Patentable in AI," WIPR Summit, (2023)
• "IP Challenges in AI," WIPR Summit, (2023)
• "Patent Protection for Metaverse Innovations: Subject Matter Eligibility, Novelty, and Non-Obviousness Requirements," Strafford Publications, (2022)
• "Artificial Intelligence – Coming to a Law Firm or Business Near You 2021," PBI CLE, (2021)

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Joseph was employed at an intellectual property boutique firm where he gained experience in various aspects of intellectual property law, primarily domestic and foreign patent preparation and prosecution.

• Board of Directors, SJP…Men for Others, Inc.