Neethu
Elizabeth Simon
Staff Solution Architect at Arm
"Stumble and Humble: Success Story of grit and determination after multiple patent rejections"
"Stumble and Humble: Success Story of grit and determination after multiple patent rejections"
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Session: Stumble and Humble: Success Story of grit and determination after multiple patent rejections
A software idea is patentable that protects computer software. These can be standalone computer software program, mobile app or software integrated into mechanical devices. Unlike hardware-based patents, filing software-based patents is difficult. There are several challenges when filing software-based patents due to its short shelf life and the requirements that are used to satisfy any other type of invention become complicated when applied to software-based patents. Speaker successfully filed and published her first patent after getting rejected thrice by the internal company patent office. This presentation will illustrate her story of grit & determination in filing her first patent after 3 failures. She will cover the challenges and different strategies employed to achieve success.Key Takeaways
- Learn the process involved in converting an idea into patent.
- Understand different challenges involved in filling software-based patents.
- Learn different strategies to publish successful software-based patents.
Bio
Neethu Elizabeth Simon is a Staff Solution Architect at Arm, building optimized AI/ML/IoT solutions on arm platform, specializing in Computer Vision and Edge applications. Previously she worked at Intel Corporation & has vast industrial experience(10+years) in building smart end-to-end IoT & AI/ML-based solutions across retail, industrial and healthcare domains for external customers and open-source developer communities. Neethu is an IEEE Senior Member and holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University. She is passionate about learning new technologies, building solutions, and sharing them with others through presentations and workshops (15+ unsponsored sessions since 2019) at multiple global conferences(e.g. GHC, SWE, Open-Source-Summit) & at universities with college students. She also shares her technical knowledge by leading & reviewing technical conferences, patent filings and book publications (Co-author Book - Analytics Interpreted). Neethu is the recipient of 2025 Society of Women’s Pathfinder Award, 2023-Women Who Code–Applaud Her Award for leadership & 2020 Society of Women’s Distinguished Engineer Award for her powerful technical leadership & STEM education advocacy.Outside work, Neethu is passionate about promoting girls in STEM, women in technology, Diversity and Inclusion(D&I). Previously, she has led the Global Technical Women in Intel(TWIN) Cross-site group and the Intel India-AZ Employee Resource Group (ERG) for several years where in she has organized multiple cultural, networking, STEM volunteering and career development events. She is an active member of the IEEE Women in Engineering(WIE), Phoenix section and Society of Women Engineers(SWE), contributing at both society level and with the Phoenix chapter.
