John is a member of the Intellectual Property Department. He concentrates his practice on Patents, Trademark & Copyright, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition, Corporate Transfer, Mergers & Acquisitions and Intellectual Property Monitoring. He also specializes in the following industries: electronics, medical, optics, software, automotive, energy, consumer goods and brand management.

John received his Juris Doctor from Lewis & Clark Northwestern College of Law in Portland, Oregon in 1994 and became a member of the Patent Bar during law school. After earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he worked as an associate engineer at RCA Consumer Electronics in Bloomington, Indiana then as a research engineer for Ann Arbor Terminals.

He moved to New York City and became a senior editor of McGraw-Hill’s Electronics magazine, covering solid-state electronics, integrated circuits, and software. He later became a senior editor at High Technology magazine based in Boston.

He was a founder of Lattice Semiconductor Corp., a company specializing in the design of memory and programmable logic chips where he served as Vice President of Marketing. Prior to entering law school he received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Portland Museum Art School.