About Jimenez Law Firm

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Strategy Innovators is teamed with Jimenez Law Firm for patent preparation and prosecution. Jimenez Law Firm specializes in Intellectual Property and Trademark law.

We will guide you through every step of the IP process, keeping you right up to date, making sure you understand exactly what is going on, and advising you on every IP decision that needs to be made.

Inventors and associated enterprises face a business environment where others may be customers, partners, and competitors at the same time. Those enterprises proficiently able to: 1) assess their patenting opportunities; 2) effectively and efficiently prioritize which opportunities to pursue; and 3) act well on their decisions to improve their odds of gaining a competitive business advantage. If your enterprise would like to improve its patent strategy, we can help you structure the people, ideas, and tools required to succeed. Most importantly within this structure are guidelines from which to shape decision-making in accord with the way your patents can deliver quantifiable value.

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Our team includes patent practitioners who have been chief patent counsel or have held influential positions within the patent departments of major corporations. We understand the challenges of patent strategy for business because we have been there.

Inventors and start-ups face the risk that competitors will invalidate or design around their patent claims. Our team uses proven and proprietary checklists with our clients to assess invention comprehensiveness through legal and innovation lenses. Our aim is to ensure we define and protect: 1) the invention in its current commercial form or embodiment; 2) variations on that form or embodiment; and 3) how the invention or inventive concept may look five and ten years into the future. From such assessments, we can draft: 1) the best-possible claims; 2) patent specifications that support and leave open the possibility of future claims; and 3) networks of patents from which to comprehensively protect greater systems.

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Our team includes registered patent practitioners who were prolific inventors before and after becoming licensed by the USPTO to practice patent law. As inventors, we have walked in your shoes.

Whether you are a sole inventor banking on a single patent or a multi-national corporation banking on more than a thousand, the success of your strategy will be grounded on the fundamentals of patent preparation and prosecution. The better your patent or patent portfolio, the greater the likelihood it will shape the behavior of others who, but for your patent claims, might make free use of your inventions. The well-drafted patent becomes a tool to positively improve your relationships with customers, partners, investors, and competitors.

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Our team includes patent preparers and prosecutors who have supported patent litigation teams and run patent hunter-killer teams, endeavors demanding no stone be left unturned to put the validity of opposing patents into doubt. As seasoned patent practitioners we know how to write and prosecute patents for our clients that will be difficult for others to contest.

As President and founder of the Jimenez Law Firm, Jose counsels and represents individuals/small businesses, start-ups as well as more established clients in the Electrical, Electro- Mechanical and Medical Device sectors.  Jose also serves as onsite patent counsel for a consumer product development company and for a start-up entertainment electronics company.

As a registered Patent Attorney, Jose prepares and prosecutes patent and trademark applications before the US Patent & Trademark Office and counsels clients as well on trade secrets and copyright issues. Before starting the JLF Firm in 2019, Jose served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for American Medical Systems and was a partner with two intellectual property firms in Minnesota, Patterson & Thuente and most recently at Kagan Binder PLLC.  Jose also has years of experience in corporate transactional work gained through many years of in-house leadership positions held at a number of Fortune 500 companies. José also gained corporate operational experience in both the US and in Latin America as a General Manager and as a Quality Director.  Jose is also on the faculty of Patent Resources Group (PRG) teaching Patent Strategies for Business.

• Juris Doctor | John Marshall Law School in Chicago
• B.S. | Electrical Engineering | Northwestern University
• MBA | Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University

As a registered patent agent, Robert represents start-ups and established enterprises in robotics, logistics, retail, manufacturing, data science, general mechanical, and medical devices sectors. He is also an innovation coach for enterprises seeking to systematically invent and file patent applications in important technology fields to protect their development investments. He prepares and prosecutes US and international patent applications and consults on how to build and run a strategic patent operation for enterprise value. He is on the faculty of Patent Resources Group (PRG) teaching Patent Strategies for Business.

As a patent agent, Robert helps inventors define their ideas and file as patent applications. As an innovator and project manager, he was an inventor on more than 150 filed patent applications. His inventions include unmanned ground and aerial systems, distribution center logistics, block chain, and inventions for the store-of-the-future.

Robert has worked as a business development executive and manager of intellectual property research and analysis teams and provided innovation and strategy consulting services. He also managed patent hunter-killer teams for corporations seeking to fend off non-practicing entities. Through his experiences, he developed an appreciation for universal principles of invention and strategy from which innovators can leverage the learnings from one field into the advancement of other fields. He discusses these principles in his book "Outpacing the Competition: Patent-Based Business Strategy", published by John Wiley & Sons.

Prior to his career in commercial enterprises, he served as an Airborne Infantry Officer in the 101st Airborne Division.

• MBA at Heriot-Watt University (UK)
• BA Biology and Military Science at Duke University
• USPTO Registration No. 78,172