Overview

Dr. Sushil Iyer (formerly Dr. Sushil Shrinivasan) is a distinguished intellectual property attorney within Fish’s patent practice. With extensive experience in U.S. and international patent portfolio development and management, Sushil excels in providing strategic counsel to his clients.  

Working closely with clients, Sushil designs, builds, and deploys comprehensive IP ecosystems. These ecosystems enable clients to establish IP infrastructure, policies, systems, and processes to generate and capture IP effectively. Based on clients' goals, Sushil develops unique strategies within the framework of the IP ecosystems to protect and commercialize their IP locally and worldwide. He prepares and delivers tailor-made training programs at client sites to educate stakeholders on the importance of IP.  

Once the IP ecosystem is deployed, Sushil provides ongoing support to continuously monitor and improve its functionality. Additionally, he offers top-quality IP services to protect the innovation generated by the ecosystem. By directly managing efforts to secure IP protection through the patent process and leveraging Fish’s depth of experience in trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, he forms collaborations between clients and Fish’s broad range of legal professionals to ensure comprehensive protection. 

In addition, Sushil has directly drafted, prosecuted, or supervised the drafting and prosecution of several hundred patent applications. He conducts and leads freedom-to-operate analyses, landscape searches, and due diligence studies. Sushil provides patent validity, infringement, and enforceability opinions to clients ranging from emerging companies to Fortune 100 corporations. 

Sushil advises clients on bringing their products to market, as well as drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various intellectual property-related agreements. This includes software-as-a-service agreements, privacy policies, terms and conditions for software use, master sales agreements, and nondisclosure agreements, among others. 

Sushil’s technical focus spans the mechanical, chemical engineering, computer-related, and applied sciences fields. He has extensive experience in: 

  • Oil and gas drilling, completion, production, and processing 
  • Petrochemicals 
  • Water management, including wastewater produced in oil and gas operations 
  • Sensor-based control systems 
  • Energy generation and conversion systems 
  • Computational fluid dynamics 
  • Self-driving vehicles 
  • Consumer electronics and accessories 
  • Software 

A certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Sushil advises clients on a comprehensive range of privacy and data security laws, risks, and best practices. His technological background and experience enable him to understand and address clients’ complex and emerging data privacy issues, as well as the information technology systems required to tackle them. 

Before joining the firm, Sushil earned a doctorate in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia. As a research scientist, he gained hands-on experience in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, microfluidic devices, nanotechnology, software, optics, electrical circuits, biochemistry, and imaging technologies. Prior to that, he earned a master's in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland—Baltimore County. 

Professional associations

  • International Association of Privacy Professionals – CIPP/US

Training