Office
Jason S. Miller
Of Counsel & Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Group
Jason Miller is of counsel and co-chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Jason concentrates his practice on the procurement and enforcement of domestic and international patents, trademarks, and copyrights, in the mechanical, chemical, material, electrical and electro-mechanical arts.
Jason has worked on patent matters in industries including machine tools and related accessories, consumer and industrial containers and packaging, electrical connectors, business methods, lubrication equipment, industrial pumps and valves, forestry equipment, telecommunication equipment, fiber optics, lenticular devices and arrays, flexible circuits, inkjet printers, semi-conductors, thermoplastic materials, optical devices, bearings and compressors, medical devices, safety and fall protection equipment, automotive and hybrid technologies, computer hardware and software, musical instruments and other related technologies.
Jason regularly prepares and prosecutes patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office including conducting personal interviews before the examiners of the Patent Office. Jason has also handled both the appeal of important cases to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and when instructing foreign patent attorneys in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent Office.
Jason devotes much of his time to managing and coordinating the patent and trademark portfolios of various clients, including both domestic and international companies. He also counsels clients in avoiding infringement of patents of others and frequently opines with regard to the infringement and/or validity of individual patents, or advises as to a strategy for avoiding the patent portfolios of others. Jason also serves as trial counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants in various intellectual property infringement matters.
Read MoreEducation
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, B.S., 1995
- University of Dayton School of Law, J.D., 1998
Admitted
- The Florida Bar - 2011
- State of North Carolina - 2002
- State Bar of Ohio - 1998
- U.S. District Court for Western District of North Carolina and Southern District of Ohio
- Registered Patent Attorney, United States Patent and Trademark Office - 1999
Professional Certifications, Memberships and Activities
- Carolina Patent Trademark and Copyright Law Association
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Mecklenburg County Bar Association
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Bobbitt Inn of Court
Community Activities
- Charter Member of Lake Wylie Rotary, Membership Chairman
Representative Client Experience
Representative Patent Prosecution Experience
- Patent and Trademark counsel to a global leader in fluid handling pumps, machinery and systems.
- Patent counsel to a leading global manufacturer of lenticular optics, materials and manufacturing equipment.
- Patent and trademark counsel to a leading healthcare company.
- Trademark counsel to a leading employment screening company.
Representative Litigation Experience
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in the Western District of Texas in a trade secret and patent infringement matter involving construction and fall safety equipment
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in New Jersey in a patent infringement suit involving hydraulic power pumps.
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in New Jersey in a patent infringement matter involving tree stabilization equipment.
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in Arizona in a design patent and trademark infringement matter involving cast marble product tile designs.
- Lead trial counsel in state court in San Diego, California in a copyright infringement and business dispute matter involving computer software and source code relating to gaming machines.
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in the Western District of North Carolina in a copyright infringement matter involving computer software and source code relating to maintenance systems at oil refineries.
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in the Western District of North Carolina in a copyright infringement matter involving architectural designs.
- Co-counsel in federal court in South Carolina in a trademark infringement and business tort matter.
- Lead trial counsel in federal court in the Southern District of Ohio in a trademark infringement matter involving healthcare services.
- Lead counsel for an applicant in a trademark opposition before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
- Lead trial counsel in state court in Los Angeles, California in a business dispute matter involving lenticular optics.
- Lead trial counsel in state court in Charlotte, North Carolina in a business dispute matter involving valves and pumps.