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John A. Squires

Partner

Practice Description

John A. Squires is the co-chair of the intellectual property practice and has significant, internationally hailed experience in IP matters. He advises on all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, branding and trademark issues, operational and technology matters, and licensing transactions and investment due diligence, and has worked on numerous large-scale patent infringement litigation and technology matters.

Mr. Squires' experience includes founding the patent practice at Goldman Sachs, where he created one of the premier intellectual property platforms in the financial services industry. He has also worked with both houses of Congress as well as the regulatory community to bring about balanced, but long needed improvements in U.S. patent law. In bringing about policy changes in U.S. law, he has filed numerous amicus briefs with the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and is widely recognized in both the financial services and technology sectors as one of the country's top experts on the issue of patent-eligible technologies. Regarding the seminal issue of "business process" patents, Mr. Squires commissioned and co-authored a successful amicus brief, where, in a rarely invoked judicial procedure, his brief was selected from over 40 others for oral argument alongside the parties.

Honors

Mr. Squires is listed in IAM250 - The World’s Leading IP Strategists (2009).

Publications

  • "New Turf for Two Teammates," Bucknell Magazine, Fall 2008
  • Peer-to-Patent: Mr. Director (Please) Tear Down this Wall, AIPLA Spring 2008 Conference, Spring 2008
  • Patents as Hedge: Wall Street’s Emerging Monetization Model, From Assets to Profits, Competing For IP Value and Return, 2008
  • "Mr. Squires Goes to Washington," IP Law and Business, Summer 2007
  • Patent Law 101, Does A Grudging Lundgren Panel Decision Mean that the USPO is Finally Getting the Statutory Subject Matter Question Right, (co-author), 46 IDEA 56, 2006
  • "New Turf for Two Teammates," Bucknell Magazine, Fall 2008
  • Peer-to-Patent: Mr. Director (Please) Tear Down this Wall, AIPLA Spring 2008 Conference, Spring 2008
  • Patents as Hedge: Wall Street’s Emerging Monetization Model, From Assets to Profits, Competing For IP Value and Return, 2008
  • "Mr. Squires Goes to Washington," IP Law and Business, Summer 2007
  • Patent Law 101, Does A Grudging Lundgren Panel Decision Mean that the USPO is Finally Getting the Statutory Subject Matter Question Right, (co-author), 46 IDEA 56, 2006
  • Opportunity Lost. Opportunity Gained, Chief Legal Executive, Vol. 2. No. 3, Fall 2003
  • What You Don’t Know About Pennsylvania Rule 11 Might Surprise You, 138 Pitt L.J. 21, 1990

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Speeches and Events

  • IP Counsel Cafe event in Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California, April 1-2, 2009
  • "Developing and Using IP in an Industry that is New (Still) to IP," ipCG Thought Leadership Conference, November 2008
  • "What May Be Patented In Light of Bilski?," IQPC’s Patent Strategies, October 2008
  • "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – 2008 in Patents," WRG’s 5th Annual Patents in the Financial Services Sector Conference, (keynote), July 2008
  • Plenary Session, IPO Annual Meeting, New York, New York, Summer 2007
  • IP Counsel Cafe event in Palo Alto, Palo Alto, April 1-2, 2009
  • "Developing and Using IP in an Industry that is New (Still) to IP," ipCG Thought Leadership Conference, November 2008
  • "What May Be Patented In Light of Bilski?," IQPC’s Patent Strategies, October 2008
  • "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – 2008 in Patents," WRG’s 5th Annual Patents in the Financial Services Sector Conference, (keynote), July 2008
  • Plenary Session, IPO Annual Meeting, New York, Summer 2007
  • CIP 2007, Leveraging Services through IP Management, (keynote), Goteborg, SE, May 2007
  • Council on Foreign Relations, Roundtable on Technology, Innovation and American Primacy: The Patent, March 2007
  • CII-IPR Summit, Mumbai and Goa, India, January 2007
  • WRG, Patents in the Financial Services Industry, Annual Conferences, 2003-2007
  • IPR in the Financial Services Industry, London, October 2006, 2005
  • "What Hath State Street Wrought," Licensing Executives Society, Spring Regional Conference, Plenary Session, May 2004
  • "A Random Walk Down State Street," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Conference, April 2003
  • USPTO Annual Technology Fairs, 2001-2003
  • "Building Corporate Value Through Intellectual Property," ACCI, December 2001
  • "The Patent Bargain," Fannie Mae Annual Legal Conference, May 2001
  • "Patenting in the Financial Services Sector," AUTM, March 2001

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Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Litigation

Next Generation Vehicles

Regions

North America

United States

Education

  • Bucknell University, B.S., 1984
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Moot Court, Order of the Coif, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Staff Editor, 1992

Professional Background

  • Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Goldman, Sachs & Co., 2002-2008
  • Associate General Counsel, Goldman, Sachs & Co., 2000-2002
  • General Counsel, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Advanced Technologies & Materials, Honeywell, Inc., 1997-2000
  • Associate, Senior Associate, Rogers & Wells, 1994-1997
  • Associate, Morgan & Finnegan, 1992-1994

Admissions

1992

New York

U.S. Ct. App. - Fed. Cir.

U.S.D.C. - E.D.N.Y.

U.S.D.C. - S.D.N.Y.

1993

U.S. Patent Bar

2009

U.S. Sup. Ct.

Languages

English