Matt Levy

Matt Levy is a consultant specializing in software patents. Matt is former Patent Counsel at the Computer and Communications Industry Association, where he handled legal, policy advocacy, and regulatory matters related to patents and was lead blogger for CCIA’s Patent Progress. He is recognized as an expert on patent litigation reform and has been cited and quoted widely on the issue.
Matt joined the CCIA in 2013 from private practice, where he got first-hand experience in both patent prosecution and patent litigation, including defending clients against patent assertion entities.Matt graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center magna cum laude with the Order of the Coif, winning the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property. He received a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, where he won the Presidential Fellowship twice. His research at UK was in computational complexity theory and artificial intelligence. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern Maine.

Before law school, Matt was a software engineer at IBM in Lexington, KY, as part of the team that developed and maintained Lotus Sametime, IBM’s real-time messaging and conferencing product. He is co-inventor on U.S. Patents Nos. 8,521,830 and 9,313,273.

Matt is still a software developer in his spare time. He developed an app for the iPad, Federal Local Rules.

Matt is also a guitarist.