Gabe Sukman
Patent Attorney, Co-founder, & Chief Executive Officer | ClearstoneIP
Gabe Sukman founded ClearstoneIP with a mission to transform how organizations approach freedom-to-operate investigations. Drawing on more than 25 years of patent experience across the full IP lifecycle, Gabe brings a unique perspective shaped by his roles as a USPTO Patent Examiner, registered U.S. Patent Attorney, and patent litigator at leading firms including Paul Hastings and Gibson Dunn. His diverse background—spanning patent prosecution, complex litigation, and IP consulting—has given him firsthand insight into the inefficiencies and challenges that plague traditional patent workflows. At ClearstoneIP, Gabe is committed to solving the patent world’s most pervasive problems by questioning conventional practices and delivering logical, technology-driven solutions that save time, reduce risk, and build institutional knowledge. Gabe holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State University and a JD from Georgetown University. When he’s not reimagining patent research, you’ll find him in the mountains—rock climbing, snowboarding, or mountain biking.
Beyond the Report
Rebuilding FTO with Workflow-Native AI
FTO is no longer constrained by search quality or report generation. The bottleneck is execution and how analysis is created, validated, documented, and operationalized across teams. Most AI tools still optimize for outputs: faster reports, cleaner summaries, incremental efficiency gains. But reports don’t drive decisions, workflows do.
A new category is emerging. Workflow-native AI doesn’t just generate analysis, it embeds it directly into the system where clearance decisions are made, reviewed, and institutionalized. It captures rationale, tracks decision pathways, and enables repeatable, defensible outcomes at scale. This session is built for professionals responsible for getting FTO right under real-world constraints.
We’ll cut through vendor noise and examine what actually works in practice and where AI is delivering measurable impact, where it still falls short, and how leading teams are redesigning their clearance processes around it.
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24.11.2026
13:30
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