Intellectual property boutique law firm Patterson + Sheridan LLP has added Tom Shortledge as a patent agent in the New Jersey office of the firm. Patterson + Sheridan has five offices across the U.S., in Houston; Dallas; Palo Alto; Greensboro, North Carolina; Shrewsbury, New Jersey; and an international office in Yokohama, Japan.

Shortledge’s practice will focus on patent preparation and prosecution with an emphasis on consumer products, electronics and semiconductor technologies. He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Patterson + Sheridan, he was employed with Saul Ewing LLP.

Patterson + Sheridan LLP is an intellectual property law firm with 67 attorneys located in offices in Houston; Dallas; Palo Alto; Greensboro, North Carolina; Shrewsbury, New Jersey; and Yokohama, Japan. The firm celebrated its 20^th anniversary in 2016.

Patterson + Sheridan offers a broad range of intellectual property services, including preparing and prosecuting patents, representing clients in litigation, dispute resolution, and post-grant proceedings and actions, and providing counseling and strategic insight to clients in a wide variety of industries. The firm has assisted companies in energy, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, clean technologies, communications technologies, complex software, consumer products, electronics and semiconductor technologies, financial technology and business methods, industrial products, internet-related technologies, medical devices and procedures, nanotechnology and optics.