Matt Rodgers is the Chief Revenue Officer at Harrity & Harrity LLP, where he leads the commercial launch of the Harrity AI Patent Suite — a toolkit for patent drafting, prosecution, and intelligence developed internally by the firm and built on years of institutional knowledge from one of the country’s leading patent prosecution practices.
Matt brings more than 20 years of experience building commercial businesses in the patent and IP space. He began his career as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office before joining Landon IP, where he built the firm’s patent research and analytics business from a small team to over 100 people and $20M in revenue. He subsequently built Landon IP’s European subsidiary from zero, establishing the firm’s presence across key European markets before the company was acquired by CPA Global in 2014. Following the acquisition, Matt led GTM teams at the regional and global level across CPA Global and Clarivate, building and running the commercial growth of premium patent intelligence software and data solutions, generating up to $25M in annual new business and managing a $40M renewal book through multiple reorganizations and a second acquisition.
Matt is the co-author and co-editor of Patent Searching: Tools & Techniques (Wiley, 2007) and a contributing author to Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series, Springer, 2011). He has also served as lead instructor for the “Art & Science of Patent Searching,” a three-day accredited continuing legal education course delivered through Patent Resources Group and in-house corporate training programs worldwide.
Matt lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three daughters. He loves traveling with his family to thrilling but uncomfortable places, is a jack of several trades and master of none with a wide variety of outdoor and adventure hobbies, aspires to see more live music than he does, aspires to read more than he does, believes he is an intermediate-level cook, and hopes someday to get back to the piano.
