Providing clients with efficient and experienced IP counsel

John Linzer is a patent attorney who helps clients with patent counseling, prosecution, post-grant proceedings and litigation. His counseling and prosecution experience involves working with inventors and corporate counsel from the earliest stages of the design process through product launch. John's litigation experience includes appearances at the trial level in U.S. district courts and in the appellate phase before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His clients span a diverse range of industries in the mechanical, electrical, biotechnology and software arts, including:

• Consumer products, such as athletic wear, golf equipment, handheld tools, household cleaning and pest control products
• Health care, including medical informatics, precision medicine and applying AI and machine learning for clinical and molecular data
• Autonomous vehicles

Having more than 15 years of experience before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), John is able to provide efficient and cost-effective strategies for acquiring patent rights and helping corporations and inventors determine the best path forward in any situation.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Education

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2018)

• University of Notre Dame (B.S., cum laude, 2001)
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Society

• University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2004)
  • Regional Moot Court, member

• "Oil States Energy Services LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, Brief of Amicus Curie, Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago in Support of Neither Party"
• "United States v. Arthrex, Inc., Brief of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago as Amicus Curiae in Support of No Party"
• "Federal Circuit May Have Shed Light on What is a Computer Software Patent"
• Recent Changes to International Design Law