John Phillips is a Principal in Fish & Richardson’s Southern California office. He was previously with the firm from 1994-1999 and rejoined from 2001-present. His practice emphasizes client counseling, inter partes and ex parte post grant work, due diligence and freedom-to-operate investigations, patent opinions, and strategic patent prosecution with special expertise in Internet-related technologies, computer software, communications, and electronics. Mr. Phillips’ Internet and software experience includes e-commerce applications, enterprise software systems, 3D computer graphics, electronic imaging, user-interfaces, electronic messaging, methods of doing business, digital rights protection, database technology, and computer networking. His other experience includes medical device technology, telecommunications, and avionics. His clients include individuals, startups, mid-sized businesses, and large corporations.

Mr. Phillips was previously general counsel for MercExchange LLC and Navlet.com, Inc. (2000-2001), an associate and law clerk with Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (1990-1993), a Staff Electrical Engineer with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1988-1989) and a Research & Development Engineer with Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1985-1988).