Jon is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services group. With more than 25 years of experience, Jon works on behalf of clients to secure and protect their patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. His current practice is primarily focused on patent and trademark prosecution, and he has knowledge and experience across a wide range of other intellectual property matters, including licensing, technology transfer, and disputes involving intellectual property assets, including the Inter Partes Review process for reviewing the validity of patents at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Overview
Jon is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services group. With more than 25 years of experience, Jon works on behalf of clients to secure and protect their patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. His current practice is primarily focused on patent and trademark prosecution, and he has knowledge and experience across a wide range of other intellectual property matters, including licensing, technology transfer, and disputes involving intellectual property assets, including the Inter Partes Review process for reviewing the validity of patents at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Practice Areas
About
Jon’s work has benefited companies of all sizes, from small start-ups seeking advice on how to manage a budding portfolio of intellectual property to Fortune 100 companies with goals as unique as the intellectual property they own.
Jon’s knowledge of IP and the technologically advanced clients he represents is rooted in the dual degrees he holds in electrical and aerospace engineering. His work covers a wide range of industries and technologies including computer graphics, software, microprocessing, computer hardware, electronics, electro-mechanical systems, cameras, microfabrication, telecommunications, internet of things (IoT) and data networking, fintech, radar, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace.
Jon's skills as a lawyer in the areas of Technology Law and Patent Law are recognized in Best Lawyers in America® year after year.
Jon received his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University.
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Technology Law, 2015-2024
- Patent Law, 2016-2024
- Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2024
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2002
- Georgia, 1997
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Education
- University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 1995
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.S.E.E., 1997
- Eta Kappa Nu
- Tau Beta Pi
- Auburn University, B.A.E., 1993
- Tau Beta Pi
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Sigma Gamma Tau
Associations
- Alabama Bar Association
- Georgia Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Section of Intellectual Property Law