-: My name is Jay Yonamine.
I work on the Patents Organization at Google
and I lead the Data Science and Operations team.
The mission of our team is to leverage
data and analytics and software to enable Google
and sort of the broader and technical ecosystem,
the ability to continue to innovate
and drive technology with as few barriers
posed by patents as possible.
Yes, so something that we are just in the process
of launching is a new enterprise software system
that enables the inventor community at Google,
which are mostly are engineers,
to more seamlessly interact with our patents department.
So, it enables them to submit their ideas for
new potential inventions in a seamless manner.
It allows our internal department to
process and triage and annotate those ideas appropriately
and then allows us to interact with our global network of
law firms who actually write and file and prosecute
our patent applications and also enables us to
interact with the government patent offices
and various third party databases.
So it's a lot of software and workflow and automation,
all with an aim of increasing efficiency
and removing barriers to the invention process.
I manage a couple teams.
One is sort of more of a technical focus,
a data science team where we build
custom machine learning models,
lots of work with natural language processing
and text based models.
We build and implement software like
the software I just mentioned.
We do sort of data based infrastructure,
kind of the nuts and bolts and plumbing that
drives and enables some of
the machine learning and software,
and then we do reporting and analytics work.
I also manage a patent quality team.
This is a team of very deep technical experts
who provide substantive and technological review
of our patents and of our inventions
and then a patent operations group which
essentially keeps the ship running
and keeps the global network of our
law firms and partners operating smoothly
and consistently and effectively.