Patent
Drafting Patent
Searching Patent
Analytics
Vertex IP provides high-quality patent landscape searching and patent drafting services by pairing a broad technical background with extensive firsthand experience at both the USPTO and in law firm practice.
Patent Drafting
- Application drafting
- Claims drafting
- US and PCT formal drawings drafting
Patent Searching
- Prior art and landscape reports
- Freedom to Operate
- Patentability
- IPRs
Analytics and Prosecution
- Office Action responses
- Claim mapping
- Litigation support
- Overflow cases
Areas of Expertise
Vehicle control and navigation
Autonomous vehicles, surface and subsea vessels, aircraft, drones and UAVs
Aircraft systems
Avionics, turbines and air propulsion systems, GPS, RADAR/LiDAR, aircraft communication
Space systems
Spacecraft, electric propulsion, rocket propulsion, power, payloads, material compatibility
Semiconductor fabrication/MEMS
Deep reactive ion etching, Si/SiO2 wafer processing, photolithography, atomic force microscopy, wafer bonding
Datacenters
High-performance compute clusters, temperature management and cooling systems, networks, three-dimensional integrated circuits (3DICs), high-bandwidth memory (HBM), integrated circuits including CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, and photonic integrated circuits
Medical devices
Wearable tech, biometric sensors, disease and activity monitoring
RF/Wireless communication
Signal processing, antenna arrangements, sensors and instrumentation
About Vertex IP
Vertex IP is owned and operated by Alexander Bost, a former patent examiner, registered patent practitioner (USPTO Reg. No. 81,681), and MIT alumnus.
After graduating from Lehigh University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Alex spent four years conducting academic research at MIT in fields spanning materials science, biology, computational neuroscience, condensed matter physics, and space systems. He earned a Master's degree from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics with a focus on space propulsion, where he worked on ion electrospray propulsion systems.
Alex worked at an ion engine startup after completing his graduate degree, performing vacuum chamber testing, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication in a Class 10 cleanroom, and laser micromachining. He helped lead a breakthrough in microfabrication techniques that improved microstructure manufacturing precision by more than 10x and ion thruster performance by more than 5x. He is a named inventor on U.S. Patent No. 11,545,351, Apparatus for Electrospray Emission.
Alex spent three years as a patent examiner with the USPTO in Art Unit 3662, examining patent applications in vehicle control and navigation with a focus on autonomous vehicles, AI/ML systems, and robotics, producing over 300 office actions during that time.
After leaving the USPTO, Alex worked at a composites manufacturing startup managing patent filings, interfacing with engineers to identify potential inventions, and educating the company about the patenting process. He passed the USPTO Patent Practitioner Registration Exam in early 2023 and spent two and a half years as a patent agent in Boston IP law firm practice before joining a patent software startup developing agentic AI tools for patent analysis.
Outside of patent law, Alex enjoys being outside as much as possible through sailing, wing foiling, hiking, and camping and has a Wilderness First Responder certification.
