About ClearstoneIP

Defining the Standard for Patent Clearance Management

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Our Story

ClearstoneIP was founded by patent attorneys to pioneer the industry standard for digital freedom-to-operate management. The Clearstone FTO platform provides efficient workflows centered around critical collaboration between and among key stakeholders in the patent clearance process, including in-house counsel, R&D, business units, and outside counsel. The result is accelerated innovation with effectively managed and mitigated patent infringement risk, all while building an institutional patent knowledge base.

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Our Leadership Team

The founders’ collective 40 years of patent industry experience, together with ongoing feedback from thousands of global users, enable FTO management best practices in the market’s only purpose-built, end-to-end patent clearance management platform.

Gabe Sukman

Chief Executive Officer

Gabe has over 20 years of patent experience, including time as a USPTO examiner, registered patent prosecutor, and patent litigator. He is committed to solving some of the patent world's most pervasive problems by questioning conventional practices and shifting thought toward correct, logical solutions. He enjoys time in the mountains, especially while rock climbing, snowboarding, or mountain biking.

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Jesse Sukman

Chief Marketing Officer

Jesse conceived of the foundational idea behind ClearstoneIP with a strong vision for effective patent analysis and a natural inclination to challenge the status quo. He is a patent attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in law firm and in-house settings and is keenly aware of the difficulties faced by stakeholders throughout the intellectual property continuum. He enjoys hiking and snowboarding.

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Joe Aliperti

Chief Technology Officer

Joe co-founded ClearstoneIP with a passion for developing cutting-edge software. He studied at Cornell University and has 20 years of experience in high-tech fields, including flight simulation, facial recognition, and predictive modeling. He is excited to solve big data problems in the patent industry. When not in front of a computer, Joe enjoys riding his motorcycle and photographing birds.

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Stuart Recher

Chief Commercial Officer

Stuart Recher has over 25 years of strategic business development experience, delivering IP, content, knowledge management and infrastructure solutions to law firms and enterprises from SME to Fortune 500. Stuart was most recently the President, Services at MaxVal, where he led a global team of IP professionals. Stuart has held senior leadership roles at IP market leaders and software innovators including Clarivate, Thomson Reuters, CPA Global, and Nstein (now OpenText).

He holds an MBA from Duke University.

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Our Clients

Every day, thousands of patent professionals and technical leaders around the globe rely on Clearstone FTO to manage and collaborate on product clearance, freedom to operate, and patent infringement analysis.