Jonathan Statman leverages his extensive training in analog and digital circuits from Caltech and UCLA to help clients secure and protect their patent rights and develop their patent portfolios. He has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and internationally, representing clients involved in various electronics, software, and mechanical technologies. He also has broad experience practicing before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

In particular, Jonathan has experience with analog and digital circuits, programmable logic devices and field-programmable gate arrays, memory systems, autonomous driving software and sensors, drones, touch sensors, proximity sensors, force sensors, human-machine interfaces, user interfaces, touch screens, display screens, input devices, signal processing algorithms, image processing, audio processing, virtual reality and mixed reality, machine learning, medical sensors, and information systems.

Jonathan has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of U.S. and foreign applications directed to touch screens, sensors, and user interfaces. He has worked closely with clients in developing patent-focused strategies and managing complex patent portfolios.

His inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant practice includes in-depth legal research, data analytics, prior art analysis, working with experts, and drafting briefs.

Before joining the firm, Jonathan worked as a patent attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Additionally, he worked as a hardware engineer designing controllers and peripheral devices for IEEE-1149.1-compatible boundary scan and in-system memory programming.

• Successfully argued multiple ex parte appeals
  before the USPTO
• Successfully represented a patent owner in IPR2017-00730, resulting in the USPTO denying the petition to institute the IPR.
• Selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars: 2022 - 2023.
• Committee Chair for LAIPLA Washington in the West Committee.
• Member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society.

• Gaming the System: Invalidating Patents in Reexamination After Final Judgments In Litigation; UCLA Journal of Law & Technology; Spring 2015
• Contributed to Challenging Validity in the PTO Under the 2011 America Invents Act in the PLI Patent Litigation Treatise

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• California Bar

• Patent Drafting & Prosecution
• Global Patent Portfolio Management
• Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB)
• Patent Due Diligence
• Patent Litigation Support