Jeff Morton is a founding partner of our San Diego office, and co-chairs Snell & Wilmer’s Life Sciences and Medical Technology, and Technology Industry Groups. He has over 15 years of experience representing both start-up and large enterprises for their intellectual property and commercial law needs. Jeff is retained on a regular basis to serve as external IP/technology counsel to companies around the world, and also represents numerous leading international law firms to protect their clients’ intellectual property rights in the United States.
Jeff has significant patent prosecution and strategic patent counseling experience in a wide range of technologies, including genomics and immunology. He also maintains an active trademark and transactional practice, and has represented clients in numerous intellectual property-related transactions. Due to his bar admissions in the United States and Canada, Jeff's practice includes providing cross-border advice to Canadian clients operating in the United States, and vice versa.
In 2021, Jeff was recognized as a Patent Leader in the United States by the World IP Review and as one of the world’s leading IP strategists by IAM Strategy 300.
