Eric Sutton is a Senior Patent Counsel at Oracle in Redwood Shores, California, where he manages patent portfolios related to cloud management, automation, data and marketing clouds, artificial intelligence, social, and enterprise applications. At Oracle, Mr. Sutton also runs an inter-company patent quality study, which has resulted in submissions and presentations to the USPTO as part of the Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative and subject matter eligibility updates, and articles published on Patently-O, IP Watchdog, and Patnotechnic, the last of which is a blog operated by Mr. Sutton on the big data analysis and automation of patent work.