About Huw Jones

I focus on meeting the needs of small and medium sized corporations in their early growth phases and have decades of experience building cost-effective patent portfolio strategies and IP Licensing for commercialization.

I started in private practice with the law firms Allegretti & Witcoff (Chicago), Sterne Kessler (Wash. DC) and Hayes & Soloway PC (Tucson) where I learned the basics of practicing law. I then moved to in-house roles as IP Counsel, with three stints as in-house Intellectual Property Counsel with Fortune 500 companies Bayer Corporation (Pharmaceuticals Division), Roche Group/Ventana Medical Systems (Senior Director of IP) and lastly Danher Corp. (Senior Director of IP for the Water Quality Group). For the last two and a half years I have been General Counsel to an alternative energy startup in Florida. Altogether I have twenty-nine years of experience as an Attorney, eight in private practice and twenty-one in corporate settings.

This diverse background has exposed me to several distinctly different legal practices and technology areas. For example, at Bayer I was responsible for the Biological Products division where I was responsible for both the IP concerns of the Plasma processing group in North Carolina, and the recombinant biologicals group in Berkley, CA. At Ventana Medical Systems I started the legal function which grew into a department of five lawyers and support staff. While there I orchestrated the expansion of the patent portfolio three-fold, managed three simultaneous patent litigations against competitors, and became the sole lawyer representing the companion diagnostic program. Ventana was ultimately bought out by Roche for 14X sales. At Danaher I was responsible for the Water Quality Group’s IP issues. I implemented a world-wide patent management function, added automated competitive intelligence monitoring, engaged in monetizing a portion of Hach’s patent portfolio, and supported a successful re-negotiation of a key product portfolio which ultimately saved the company multi-millions of dollars in royalties.

Given these experiences with real-world business outcomes, I am well-positioned to act as a strategic IP attorney to small- and medium-sized science or IP-based companies. My technical background is in Chemistry and the life sciences, but I am also comfortable advising in related areas such as Technology and software.