OpenAI’s Top Patent Strategist Joins Junior to End $200K “Junior Associate” Turnover in Patent Law
Gideon Myles Brings OpenAI IP Firepower to Junior’s 60% Faster Patent Drafting Engine
ATLANTA (Nov. 24, 2025) – Junior, a Microsoft partner providing a generative AI integration for Microsoft Word built for patent draftsmen, announced the appointment of Gideon Myles, associate general counsel for patents and trademarks at OpenAI, to its advisory board. Myles, who built Dropbox’s patent portfolio to more than 600 assets and now safeguards OpenAI’s IP amid explosive growth, will sharpen Junior’s ability to handle AI inventorship, §112 scrutiny and global prosecution.
Before joining OpenAI in October 2023, Myles spent 11 years at Dropbox, where he served as senior director and head of intellectual property. In that role, he led the company’s patent, trademark and open source programs, supported IP litigation matters and managed intellectual property aspects of corporate transactions.
“Gideon isn’t just an ivory-tower academic; he’s a battle-tested IP strategist who’s spent over a decade defending and building patent portfolios at Dropbox and OpenAI,” said Yuri Eliezer, CEO of Junior. “This appointment is a signal that AI tools for patent drafting are evolving from niche experiments to essential infrastructure for protecting tech breakthroughs.”
Myles holds a unique combination of technical and legal expertise. He has been recognized multiple times in IAM Strategy 300 as among the world’s leading IP strategists and previously received an In-House Impact Award for his contributions to in-house legal practice. He earned a doctorate in computer science from the University of Arizona, where his research focused on software protection technologies, and his law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. He previously worked as a software engineer at Apple and as a research staff member at IBM Research before transitioning to legal practice.
Myles will also join Junior’s upcoming webinar, “AI Prompting for Patent Prep & Pros,” on November 25, where the company will demonstrate its patent drafting AI and share best practices for integrating generative tools into patent workflows. The session will include live demonstrations and prompting strategies for patent professionals. Registration is available at junior.law/webinar-ai-prompting-for-patent-prep-pros/.
The appointment of Myles follows Junior’s addition of Scott Frank to its advisory board in October. Frank, who managed AT&T’s 10,000-plus patent portfolio and generated over $500 million in licensing revenue at BellSouth IP Management Corp., advises on corporate IP department adoption strategy.
See how Junior’s AI learns firm-specific drafting styles and reduces patent drafting time by up to 60% at junior.law/demo.
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Junior is the AI associate that never quits. Built by patent lawyers for patent lawyers, the patent AI agent ends the “junior associate problem” — where firms spend more than $200,000 training talent that leaves in 18 months. Pre-trained on partner-level judgment and firm-specific style, Junior integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word and cuts drafting time 60% on average. No prompt engineering. No workflow changes. Just consistent, defensible output from day one. With enterprise-grade security (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001), Junior enables shared prompt libraries that lock in institutional knowledge across practice groups. It scales infinitely — no headcount, no burnout, no benefits. For solo practitioners and small firms, Junior is the trained associate they cannot afford to hire. For large firms, it is the retention strategy they cannot afford to ignore. Junior does not replace lawyers — it clones senior expertise for repetitive tasks, freeing attorneys for strategy. In patent law, where training is costly and expertise scarce, Junior is the first AI that preserves knowledge, reduces churn and grows with the firm — in perpetuity. Learn more at junior.law.