John Hilten is a registered patent attorney with more than 30 years of experience in patent prosecution. His areas of concentration include patent prosecution and client counseling with respect to patent protection, trade secret protection, patent and trade secret litigation, infringement, invalidity and freedom to operate.
John has extensive experience with every aspect of utility and design patent prosecution, including patent application drafting, responses, reissuing patent applications, reexamining patent applications, patent appeals and foreign filing. His experience working as an examiner and Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE) in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deepened John's understanding and knowledge of the patent procedure, which he utilizes when creating and maintaining patent portfolios for clients.
John develops thorough understandings of the high-level technologies with which clients work, enabling him to efficiently represent them in complex or challenging industries that include telecommunication, semiconductor, aerospace, blockchain, artificial intelligence and automotive technologies, as well as others. Moreover, John’s multidisciplinary engineering degrees allow him to skillfully obtain broad patent coverage for a multitude of technologies.