Dr. Brendan Jones is a registered US patent attorney in Foley Hoag’s Intellectual Property group. He practices intellectual property law with a focus on the life science industry by representing clients in patent prosecution and litigation matters and post-grant proceedings.
Dr. Jones manages the worldwide prosecution of extensive patent portfolios for a diverse array of clients, including large and small biotechnology companies and academic institutions. Over the course of his more than 10 years with Foley Hoag, he has successfully obtained U.S. and foreign patents for his clients covering a wide range of technologies, including protein, antibody, siRNA and small molecule therapeutics, drug discovery platforms, genetically modified organisms, molecular diagnostic platforms, and downstream pharmaceutical processing systems. Dr. Jones prides himself on working closely with his clients to help them implement an optimized intellectual property strategy closely aligned with their institution’s strategic goals.
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Dr. Jones also represents both patent challengers and patent owners in post-grant proceedings, including Inter Partes Review (IPR) and reexamination proceedings, and federal court patent litigation, in both the pharmaceutical and biotechnology space. He has extensive experience applying his technical expertise to the representation of clients in patent litigation proceedings in fields ranging from small molecule drugs, antibody- and protein-based therapeutic platforms, siRNA technology, molecular diagnostics, and antibody-based research reagents.
Dr. Jones obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Jianzhu Chen. In Dr. Chen’s laboratory, Dr. Jones studied T cell activation and cytokine expression. Following completion of his doctoral studies, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the epigenetics group at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. After joining Foley Hoag as a Technology Specialist and Patent Agent, Dr. Jones obtained his J.D. and graduated summa cum laude from Suffolk University Law School.
