Jonathan Knight is a senior associate with extensive patent litigation, ITC and patent counseling experience. In particular, his practice includes development of invalidity contentions, defending infringement contentions, taking depositions, analysis of accused products and technical documents, and steering technical expert and source code discovery. He also represents parties in inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, engaging in all phases of the IPR process, including development of petitions and responses, handling unique additional discovery and briefing issues, and preparing for and taking deposition of experts and other declarants. His work in both litigation and post-grant practice has spanned a broad range of technology fields, including wind turbine technology, video encoding, video streaming and mobile check deposit systems.

His patent counseling practice builds upon his prior experience as a research chemical engineer and finance professional, helping clients procure and exploit proprietary patent positions in FinTech, computing and chemical technologies. His clients have included leading-edge firms focused in cybersecurity, blockchain, internet-of-things, pharma, immunoassays, digital health and green technology.  

His practice includes domestic and international patent procurement, patent validity opinions, IP due diligence, licensing (including analysis of software GPL issues) and business counseling. He also assists with patent infringement actions in federal courts and post-grant trial proceedings at the USPTO.

Before entering the legal profession, Dr. Knight worked in finance developing proprietary valuation technology for leveraged mortgage arbitrage, heading a team of five PhDs and more than a dozen software, database and network professionals. Dr. Knight founded a firm that deployed capital in asset-backed structured finance (ABS), asset-based loans (ABLs) and private investments in public companies (PIPEs).

Dr. Knight's doctoral thesis integrated computational chemistry tools in mathematical programming-guided design of chemical processes. As a research engineer, he developed a test reactor cooperatively configured with process simulation tools to assess scalability of cationic polymerization catalysts.