Jason P. Cooper

• Counsel with extensive experience in appeal, reexamination, and IPR, proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and former Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI).
• Patent counsel to a leading quick-service restaurant (QSR) company.
• Patent counsel to a leading global manufacturer of materials and systems for protective, presentation, and fresh food packaging, and performance solutions in the industrial, food, and consumer markets.
• Patent counsel to an innovative manufacturer of carpets, rugs, and other flooring products.
• Patent counsel to leading advanced composites companies.

Jason Cooper is the past chair of Alston & Bird’s Intellectual Property Area, with emphasis in mechanical, manufacturing, and medical device technologies, and is also the past chair of the firm’s Partners Committee. Jason manages patent portfolios of various domestic and international clients and helps monetize those portfolios. He counsels clients on avoiding the infringement of others’ patents and opines on infringement and/or validity of individual patents or advises on strategy for avoiding others’ patent portfolios.

Jason regularly prepares and prosecutes patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is experienced in all aspects of ex parte and inter partes patent practice, including examiner interviews, third-party submissions, appeals, interferences, reexaminations and reissues, inter partes reviews (IPR), and instructing foreign patent attorneys in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office. For eight consecutive years, 2017–2024, Jason has been named one of the world’s foremost IP strategists by Intellectual Asset Management’s “IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists,” which says that Jason “never produces anything less than top-quality work in prosecution, IP commercialisation, and disputes.”

Jason has completed the Harvard Law School Executive Education Program, Leadership in Law Firms.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• North Carolina
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

• Indiana University - Bloomington (J.D., 1992)
• Purdue University (B.S.M.E., 1988)

Memberships