Jonathan A. Small, Founder
JAS IP Consulting was founded by Jonathan Small in 2005. Mr. Small has been providing intellectual property counseling and related legal services as in-house and outside counsel since 1986.
Mr. Small’s technical education and background is in applied mathematics, and his legal education focused on intellectual property law. His technical focus is electrical, optical, and mechanical devices and processes, materials science, solid state physics, telecommunications, and computer architecture, devices, and software.
Mr. Small has experience in most every facet of intellectual property rights development, transactions, and enforcement, including developing and implementing protection strategies, preparation and prosecution of patent applications for domestic and international filing, right to use studies, patent landscape analysis, design-around programs, licensing and transferring intellectual property rights, validity and infringement studies, and enforcement of perfected rights.
Mr. Small began his legal career with the law firm Townsend and Townsend in San Francisco. Mr. Small then served as an attorney and as associate general patent counsel for Xerox Corporation, located at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he helped develop and oversee facets of a portfolio numbering in the thousands of patents. He served as General and Patent Counsel for Komag, Inc., a manufacturer of magnetic and magneto-optical recording disks. He also served as General and Patent Counsel for Calient Networks, a developer and manufacturer of MEMS components and all-optical interconnects for optical networking. Mr. Small also co-founded and served as General and Patent Counsel of Carbonframes, Inc., a composite bicycle manufacturer, and Pixel Kinetics, a developer of motion controlled-display technologies.
Education
Santa Clara University School of Law
J.D., 1986
Editor-in-Chief, vol. 2, Computer and High Technology Law Journal
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
B.A., Applied Mathematics, 1983
Stanford University
M.A., Mathematics, Education, 2003
Admitted to Practice
State Bar, California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Federal District Court, All Districts, California
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Expertise and efficiency – What our experience brings to our clients
With a broad and extensive base of experience, JAS IP Consulting brings a high level of expertise and efficiency to our client’s intellectual property rights matters.
First and foremost, our focus is on quality. Our experience has led to a unique focus on crafting programs and specific protection able to withstand challenges to validity, whether based on the state of the prior art or the process by which the rights were obtained. The net result is broad and enforceable property rights which protect our client’s intellectual property, providing an invaluable advantage in the marketplace.
Through many years of working with technology and intellectual property rights, both from the client and the legal services provider perspective, we realize that a shared vision with our clients is a critical factor in providing quality intellectual property counseling. Accordingly, we work closely with (not just for) our client, bringing both skill and a sense of teamwork to the task, and dependability and a personal stake in the outcome of our work.
Finally, we recognize that there are cost constraints, even in the most extensive of intellectual property development programs. We are sensitive to the challenges of managing an outside counsel budget in a cost-effective way. Therefore, through efficient practice, low overhead, and a personal stake in the outcome of our work, JAS IP Consulting offers its clients cost-sensitive services without sacrificing the quality of the final work product.