As Chair of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Department, Josh helps companies and innovators make intelligent decisions about their intellectual property rights and protect the ultimate value of their business — from IP prosecution to IP audits/due diligence to IP litigation and licensing. Josh’s work spans a variety of technologies, including chemical/materials, electrical engineering and computer arts. He has tried IP litigation matters to decision, conducted claim construction (Markman) hearings, led and consulted in post grant proceedings and represented clients before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Josh also has unique experience in licensing matters, negotiating hundreds of technology agreements for multiple clients, including dozens of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with National Laboratories and Research Agreements with Universities. 

Josh’s experience in IP law has led to exciting work, including being entrusted to handle a variety of IP matters for international clients such as Corning, LexisNexis (a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc.) and Toyota. In fact, Josh is currently serving as Acting Patent Counsel for Reed Elsevier, Inc., a global publisher and provider of workflow and business solutions. In his role as “in-house counsel,” Josh is able to get a unique perspective of the IP challenges faced by multi-national corporations, which has served to enhance his practice and quality of service to clients.