Jones Day has a full-service intellectual property practice with trial lawyers capable of assisting clients with a wide range of tech and life sciences patent disputes. The group works across a wide range of industry sectors, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and consumer products, and maintains relationships with notable clients including Johnson & Johnson, Qualcomm, and Tineco Intelligent Technology. The patent litigation practice is co-headed by trial lawyer David Maiorana in Cleveland, who has extensive experience acting in competitor disputes, Ryan Walsh in Atlanta, as well as San Diego-based Anthony Insogna, who is the global chair of the firm's IP practice. In Silicon Valley, Greg Lanier is a seasoned trial lawyer who specialises in tech sector infringement cases, having recently represented NXP Semiconductors in a patent infringement dispute against a competitor. The group also includes Sasha Mayergoyz in Chicago, whose broad practice covers a variety of tech patent disputes across all patent litigation forums, and IP litigator Sarah Geers in New York, who frequently represents pharmaceutical companies in a wide range of proceedings, including Hatch-Waxman litigation and jury trials.

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Key clients

Google LLC
Johnson & Johnson
DePuy Synthes
Merck
NXP
R.J. Reynolds
Tineco Intelligent Technology
Ricoh
Xilinx
The NOCO Company
Qualcomm

Work highlights

Acted for Merck Sharp & Dohme in a multi-party Hatch-Waxman dispute in which the court sided with Merck on an issue of first impression involving the calculation of Merck’s patent term extension.
Represented DePuy Synthes, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in a patent infringement case involving medical devices.
Represented R.J. Reynolds before the ITC in a patent infringement case against Philip Morris, with the Federal Circuit ruling in Reynolds' favor and keeping Philip Morris' electronic smoking devices off the US market.