Cheryl Milone Cowles, an experienced patent attorney, co-founder, and principal of AnswersIP, is a champion for innovation and intellectual property (IP) assets. She is a visionary with an exceptional focus on quality and has over two decades of experience advocating before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Cowles has built IP portfolios for SME clients and leading Fortune 1000 companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Lucent Technologies. Her previous venture, Article One Partners, was named 2009 Startup of the Year, and she was recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative CEOs in the U.S. at a 2010 White House forum on improving government customer service.

Cowles is admitted in New York and is a registered patent practitioner with USPTO. She is a member of the Federal Bar Association and has contributed significantly to the field of IP. Milone Cowles is a primary inventor on three patents and nine patent applications in the electronic software area and has contributed as an inventor to a drug-coated stent, a cardiac medical device. She writes for leading IP publications, speaks at IP conferences, and appears on television as an IP analyst.

Cowles is currently VP, Corporate Development at IPwe, a firm focused on transforming the patent and innovation ecosystem. She is also a contributing inventor on a drug-coated stent, a cardiac medical device, and is currently writing her first book.