An IP attorney with broad technical and legal experience

Mitchel Jones brings over fifteen years of experience counseling clients across a wide range of technical disciplines. His intellectual property law practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution as well as preparing FTO, invalidity, and non-infringement opinions in the fields of electronics and semiconductor technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, medical devices, and complex software and information technology.

Mitchel returned to Patterson + Sheridan after serving as a founding partner of an intellectual property firm in California, where he managed a team of attorneys and patent agents in representing clients ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to smaller start-ups. Mitchel’s deep interest in technology has enabled him to support clients in a broad range of cutting-edge fields, including 3D computer graphics, artificial intelligence, processor architectures, complex software, virtual reality, computer networking, and semiconductor processing.

Additionally, Mitchel previously served as in-house patent counsel for a San Francisco-based technology company, where he managed the company’s global patent portfolio and worked closely with various business units to advise on FTO and landscape analyses. This exposure gave Mitchel a better understanding of the day-to-day challenges of in-house counsel, and he leverages this firsthand knowledge to better serve inventors and in-house counsel alike.

While pursuing his undergraduate degree in engineering, Mitchel studied electronic materials, focusing on semiconductor physics, integrated circuit fabrication and device design, and optoelectronics. He conducted research in the areas of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and semiconductor thin film growth. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.