Jason Cooper is co-coordinator of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Area and is the group leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property-Mechanical Patent Group. Mr. Cooper concentrates his practice on patent law, primarily on the procurement of patents relating to mechanical, medical device and manufacturing technologies, and on managing the expansion of patent portfolios of clients. He has extensive experience in counseling as to the patents of other parties in these technologies.

Mr. Cooper is a leader in the intellectual property field and is currently the Rapporteur of the Commission d'Étude et de Travail for IP litigation and enforcement of the Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI), an international organization of IP attorneys. Mr. Cooper is serving his fourth term as a councilor of the United States Section of FICPI, and is a member of AIPPI, IIPA, AIPLA and the Federal Circuit Bar Association. He served on the board of managers of the Carolinas Patent Trademark and Copyright Law Association and currently serves on the intellectual property advisory board of the Indiana University Law School. Mr. Cooper is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

A native of Great Britain, Jason received his B.S.M.E. from Purdue University in 1988. After working as a product engineer for a power transmission, bearing, aerospace and specialty components manufacturer, he attended law school at Indiana University – Bloomington, where he received the American Jurisprudence Award in Patent Law. Mr. Cooper graduated with his J.D. degree, cum laude, in 1992.

Mr. Cooper has worked on patent matters in industries including papermaking machinery, biomedical devices, cutting and welding equipment, machine tools and related accessories, consumer and industrial containers, engineered textile products and related machinery, packaging machinery, electrical connectors, automotive products, business methods, kitchen appliances, flooring products, lubrication equipment, industrial valves, carbon fiber/composites, forestry equipment, infant products and furniture components.

Mr. Cooper 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. Mr. Cooper has also been successful in 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.

Mr. Cooper devotes much of his time to managing and coordinating the patent 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.

Mr. Cooper has spoken and written on topics pertaining to 35 USC 102(e) and the effective prior art status of U.S. patents, and is a co-author of the book The Art and Science of Patent Law, published by Aspatore Books (2004). He also made a presentation to the 2004 FICPI-ABC conference on “Electronic Filing of Patent & Trademark Applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office” and a presentation to an IP seminar on “International Patent Harmonization and U.S. Patent Reform.” He made a presentation at a FICPI Symposium in China in 2007 on claims drafting in the US, and a presentation at a FICPI Forum in Italy in 2008 on divisional application filing strategies in the US.