Summary
Jonathan A. Platt assists clients in matters involving all types of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and unfair competition. He focuses mainly on patent application preparation and prosecution, and on filing and prosecution of trademark applications. He also does significant work in preparation of patent infringement, validity, and right-to-market opinions, and in counseling clients in various matters related to intellectual property.
The wide variety of technical areas in which Dr. Platt has obtained patent protection for clients includes: aerospace systems, mechanical fasteners, medical devices, radar systems, electrical connectors, heat transfer devices, optical readers, hydraulic actuators, semiconductor devices, computer displays, and physical training equipment.
Before joining the firm, Dr. Platt worked as a research engineer at the NASA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn Research Center), where he authored several technical publications. Prior to that, Dr. Platt worked as an aircraft design engineer on the Harrier project for McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, in St. Louis.
Partner
Education
J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, 1997
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1991. Dissertation topic: Natural Convection in Liquid Metals
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1988. Thesis topic: Effect of Free Surface Shape on Surface- Tension-Driven Flows
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, With High Honors, 1983
B.S., Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, With High Honors, 1983
Bar Admissions
Ohio, 1997
Registered to practice before various State and Federal courts
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Memberships
Case Western Reserve University Law Review
Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association
Publications
Protecting Reliance on the Patent System: The Economics and Equities of Intervening Rights, 47 CWRU L. Rev. 1031 (1997).
An Analytical Investigation of Transient Effects on Rewetting of Heated Thin Flat Plates, HTD-Vol. 269, Heat Transfer in Microgravity, ASME (1993).
Prediction of Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow Regime in Microgravity (with Jinho Lee), NASA Technical Memorandum 106274 (1993).
Effect of Free Surface Shape on Combined Thermocapillary and Natural Convection (with Yasuhiro Kamotani), 6 J. of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer 721 (1992).
Interests
Dr. Platt enjoys biking, hiking, and kayaking with his family.