John Weatherspoon is a patent attorney at NGUYEN TARBET LLC. For over twenty years, John has been an IP advisor to hundreds of companies from startup companies to much larger, well-established publicly traded companies. John has advised hundreds of clients in almost every industry including, for example, aerospace, biotech, healthcare and medical, pharmaceutical, computer, semiconductor and many other industries. As a registered U.S. patent attorney, John regularly works with clients on strategies for building and protecting their valuable intellectual property. He also regularly advises on the monetization and enforcement of IP portfolios. John also regularly provides freedom to operate opinions, handles IP due diligence and IP licensing and in general advises on strategies for commercialization of IP. In addition, John has over twenty years of patent litigation experience and he has been on several successful litigation teams representing his clients. John has represented clients from many different industries and he also has significant ANDA and ITC patent litigation experience.
Prior to joining NGUYEN TARBET LLC, John was a co-founder of a startup pharmaceutical company called Affirmed Pharma. John also previously worked as a registered U.S. patent attorney at a few small boutique firms and also some very large firms in the Washington DC area (Morgan Lewis, Winston & Strawn). In addition, John was a U.S. Patent Examiner and he also worked as a research scientist at Burroughs Wellcome (now part of GlaxoSmithKline) in Research Triangle Park, NC.
John also has a lot of professional experience as an advisor, author, panelist, speaker at conferences, an instructor and a mentor to young entrepreneurs. Here is a representative summary of some of John’s professional activities: