Allen Waltz works in Foley’s Intellectual Property practice area and is a member of the firm’s Electronics Practice Group. His practice covers patent preparation, prosecution, and post-grant diligence for technologies including wireless communications, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), semiconductors, software, and combined hardware and software systems and devices.
Allen has worked extensively on wireless radio access technologies. He has performed post-grant diligence on patent portfolios directed to 3GPP standards, including 5G, analyzing issued claims against the relevant 3GPP technical specifications. He has also drafted patent applications directed to 5G and 6G technologies for a leading developer and licensor of foundational wireless and cellular innovations.
Allen also has experience with AI/ML, including drafting and prosecuting patent applications directed to industry leading AI/ML technologies for autonomous vehicles, software integration technologies, and cyber-security. In the semiconductor space, he has drafted applications from end to end processes and devices, covering subject matter from fabrication processes through control circuits for a range of semiconductor companies, from early stage startups to well-established market leaders. Allen also drafts and prosecutes patent applications for software and combined hardware and software technologies, including healthcare technologies, medical devices, and banking and financial services systems.
Allen started at Foley as a summer law clerk. Before joining Foley, he worked as a law clerk at another law firm, focusing on patent prosecution for autonomous vehicles and semiconductor technologies.
Allen is an engineer with a degree in computer engineering from the University of Dayton. With prior experience working as an engineer at an Air Force Research Lab, he researched and analyzed emerging technologies, including drone technologies, to be incorporated into the Air Force. As a software engineering intern at a software company, he updated logging systems and wrote matching unit tests for legacy and deprecated code. Allen also has IT experience, including providing IT services and developing websites.