In our current technology-dominant market, the mad dash to both innovate and protect the potential market value of that innovation seems to have become a much more salient concern for organizations. Daniel Miller, now special counsel for Kasowitz Benson Torres’ Intellectual Property group, doesn’t necessarily think so, though.

Between eight years spent in-house at data analytics platform MicroStrategy and Google and another six years as a patent litigator for King & Spalding, Miller has been working in patent litigation long enough to look through the hype of the era and see common threads. While certainly he’s witnessed changes over the last few years, namely the widespread push into global markets, the core components of patent work and patent litigation feel largely the same.