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Chair, Autonomous Transportation and Shared Mobility Practice

Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to high technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. We have over 245 attorneys and offices in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California. Fenwick & West is committed to providing innovative, cost-effective and practical legal services and solutions that focus on global high technology industries and issues. We believe that technology will continue to drive our national and global economies and look forward to partnering with our clients to create the products and services that will help build great companies. We differentiate ourselves by having a deeper understanding of our clients? technologies, industry environment and business needs than is typically expected of lawyers.

John McNelis represented a wide range of high technology venture capitalists and companies from privately held start-ups to publicly traded corporations and advises these companies on procedures for protecting their intellectual property through patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. He also counsels these clients on various techniques to enforce their intellectual property rights. John's practice emphasizes strategic counseling on intellectual property matters including intellectual property diligence and audits, patent counseling, patent reexaminations, and patent prosecution for computer software and hardware technologies and business methods. His experience includes such technologies as robotics, autonomous vehicles, telematics, image recognition and tracking, electric vehicles, Internet applications, wi-fi, solar energy, cleantech, computer aided engineering test and design, formal design verification, three dimensional (3D) graphics, optics, optical communications, communication protocols, speech recognition, microprocessors, virtual networks, power control and memory devices. John has been honored as a leader in the field of patent law by a variety of organizations including: •Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) •The Legal News •Super Lawyers •Managing Intellectual Property's list of IP Stars John is a frequent speaker on intellectual property topics and has been an invited lecturer for, among others: •The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) •The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) •The Santa Clara Bar Association Specialties: Patent strategy and prosecution for software, hardware, robotics, and automotive technologies. I'm obligated to note that this all information on this account including posts may constitute Attorney Advertising.