Jeffrey W. Salmon has more than sixteen years of experience in patent law, handling patent prosecution, strategic counseling, transactional matters, licensing and litigation. He has particular experience in licensing and litigation of self-prosecuted patents. Mr. Salmon has been involved in numerous complex patent prosecution matters, including the preparation and prosecution of reissue and continuation patent applications regarding various subject matters, including:
- Brushless DC motors
- Electro-mechanical aspects of hard disk drives and other storage devices
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plastic Treatment methods
- Flashlights
- Acoustic micro-imaging devices and methods
- Analog data generating and processing devices and antennas
Subject matter of other self-drafted patent applications include:
- Medical devices
- Software
- Call centers
- Plastic automobile components
- Electrical and electro-mechanical aspects of microphones
Mr. Salmon has served as counsel to a licensing company in the coordination and utilization of feedback from licensing and litigation programs into worldwide patent prosecution endeavors to optimize and monetize the company's patent portfolio. He has drafted numerous patent license and assignment agreements and non-disclosure agreements. Mr. Salmon also conducted intellectual property due diligence regarding the acquisition of patents by the licensing company, counseling and participation in negotiations, and agreement drafting related thereto.
Additional strategic counseling has involved the preparation of numerous opinions of counsel on validity and infringement issues regarding various subject matters such as plastic treatment methods, automobile components, software systems and playground equipment.
Mr. Salmon's litigation experience has involved technical issues in a multi-district proceeding concerning several patent infringement lawsuits where more than 50 patents were at issue. He also has had extensive involvement in mediations related to complex patent litigation matters.
Mr. Salmon is a claim drafting instructor for PRG Patent Bar Review courses. He also participates in training programs for attorneys on patent prosecution topics such as claim drafting and prosecuting patents from a litigation perspective.
Prior to joining Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, Mr. Salmon was a Principal with Welsh & Katz, Ltd. in Chicago. He also served as patent counsel in Indiana before relocating to Chicago.
Mr. Salmon received his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, in 1992 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1989.
