Michael Drapkin is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Landfall IP, a boutique patent firm founded explicitly as an AI-native practice. He is widely recognised as one of the top patent attorneys in the U.S., guiding and assisting clients in the development and management of their patent portfolios. He has served as the top outside counsel at many of the top technology companies in the world, with practice innovation and automation at the centre of his work. Michael was named the U.S. National Practitioner of the Year for Patent Prosecution for 2022 by Managing IP and was also a finalist in 2021 and 2023.