Patrick Jewik's practice focuses on patent prosecution and strategic counseling. Mr. Jewik has significant experience in helping clients build strategic patent portfolios, design around patents and achieve maximum business advantage with their patents.

Mr. Jewik has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in a number of technologies, including semiconductor devices and semiconductor manufacturing, medical devices, electronic toys, insect repellant compositions, nanofabrication processes, nanoscale materials, microfluidic chips, biochips, bioinformatics software and methods, Internet based methods, microporous filters and filter systems, and semiconductor die packages. He has successfully prosecuted both inter partes and ex parte reexamination applications and reissue patent applications, and has had many of his prosecuted patents litigated.

Mr. Jewik also worked as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) where he examined patent applications directed to superconductors, semiconductors, electroluminescent devices and materials, polymers, coatings, ceramics, composite fabric materials and circuit boards. At the USPTO, he obtained a partial signatory authority status and a masters level designation in the art of superconductor materials.

Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Jewik worked as a process and co-op engineer at IBM Corporation, where he worked in semiconductor manufacturing, circuit board manufacturing and high density magnetic disk research.

In 2012, Mr. Jewik was recommended by Legal 500 US in the area of Patent Prosecution.

Education

  • University of Houston Law Center, J.D. (1993)
  • University of Illinois, B.S., Chemical Engineering (1989)
    with distinction

Bar Admissions

  • California (1996)
  • District of Columbia

Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1997)

Who We Are

What fully engaged means to me:

Being fully engaged means that I advise the client as if the client's business is my own.

Eighth Floor, Two Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA, 94111
USA
t +1 415.273.7529
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Patrick R. Jewik

Experience Highlights

Value extraction from pending patent applications
Expanded the claims in a pending patent portfolio for computer physical security devices for a consumer products company, where such claims were more
<EM>Inter partes</EM> re-examination for equipment manufacturer
Represented an analytics equipment manufacturer as a third party requester in an inter partes re-examination proceeding to invalidate more
<EM>Inter partes</EM> re-examination for patentee of a security device
Represented the patentee of a patent directed to a security device for electronic equipment in an inter partes re-examination proceeding more
Patent portfolio management
Represented numerous companies in the financial services, toy, clinical instrument, office products, and semiconductor industries to developing their more