Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Partner

Jon Bachand focuses his practice on helping companies protect their most important products and innovations. He represents various clients in all areas of intellectual property law with an emphasis on representing medical device and pharmaceutical companies in adversarial patent proceedings. Super Lawyers magazine has repeatedly named Jon a “Rising Star” in the field of intellectual property litigation.

Jon has experience representing companies in all phases of district court litigation and in 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission. He is a co-chair of the firm’s International Trade Commission practice. Jon represents both patent owners and petitioners before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in inter partes review proceedings involving medical devices, pharmaceuticals, life-sciences, and chemical processing patents. A former judicial clerk to the Honorable Kimberly A. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Jon has significant appellate experience and has successfully represented numerous clients in appeals before the Federal Circuit from both district court and PTAB proceedings.

Jon is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, which he helped start as one of its founding attorneys in 2008. He is a member of the firm’s pro bono committee and organizes Knobbe’s representation of American Service Veterans before the Court of Appeals of Veterans Claims. Jon is the former chair of the Chemical Engineering and the Law Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; and is actively involved in numerous organizations including the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the ITC Trial Lawyers Association. He is the former chair of the Washington DC region of the USC Gould Alumni Association. Jon lives in Arlington Virginia with his family, including their rescue dog Ralphy.