About Cynthia Gilbert

Ms. Gilbert's practice focuses on the strategic development of patent portfolios for a range of companies in all stages of the invention life cycle: computer technology start-ups, emerging companies, and established public companies. She has developed deep experience across a wide range of technology disciplines, including virtualization, application delivery, network security, computational linguistics and information retrieval, cloud computing, mobile technologies and applications, Web 2.0, distributed computing, operating systems, and communications infrastructure.

Ms. Gilbert is registered to practice law in Massachusetts and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to founding Hyperion Law, she worked as a senior attorney in the intellectual property department at one of the nation's leading law firms. Ms. Gilbert has been selected for inclusion in the Massachusetts Super Lawyers / Rising Stars Edition several times, most recently in 2011.

Representative Engagements

  • Building a robust patent portfolio to protect a multi-national client's key innovations in secure application delivery and virtualization technology
  • Performing intellectual property due diligence reviews for venture capital companies prior to investment
  • Preparing landscape analyses, non-infringement and invalidity opinions for technologies ranging from parallel computing to virtualization software

Publications and Presentations

  • Panelist on “Young Entrepreneurs” segment of “Greater Boston” television show, WGBH, July 2011
  • “International Survey of Green Tech IP Topics,” speaker, Boston Bar Association, International IP Law Meeting, October 2010
  • “IP Considerations for Community Managers,” speaker, The Community Roundtable, September 2009
  • "Creating Proprietary Value in an 'Open' World," co-presenter, 15th Annual RSA Conference, February 2006

Professional and Community Involvement

Ms. Gilbert is an active member of the Women's Bar of Massachusetts and the Boston Bar; she is also an active member of ALPFA Law, attending events for Latino business and legal professionals. She volunteers as a patent consultant for the Center for Women and Enterprise, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. She also volunteers as a writing coach and mentor to eighth-grade students participating in the Citizen Schools writing programs.