Jeff Morton is a partner in our Orange County, Los Angeles and Phoenix offices who routinely represents both start-up and large enterprises for their intellectual property, technology and commercial law needs.
His practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property and technology law, with particular experience in the life sciences industry. Jeff has significant patent prosecution experience in a wide range of technologies including immunotherapeutics for treating diabetes, HIV and cancer, and DNA sequencing methods and related devices.
Jeff also has an active trademark and transactional practice and has represented clients in numerous intellectual property-related transactions. He is regularly called upon to give timely and cost-effective advice when clients are commercializing their intellectual property assets. His experience covers a wide range of industries, and includes preparing and negotiating patent license agreements and sponsored research agreements, and advising on intellectual property issues in asset sale and merger transactions. Due to his bar admissions in both the United States and Canada, Jeff's practice includes providing advice to Canadian clients on U.S. business and legal issues, and vice versa.
In his intellectual property practice, Jeff has deep experience in all aspects of intellectual property and technology law, with a particular emphasis in the life sciences. He works with both emerging start-up companies and large, established concerns in the U.S., Canada, and around the world. Jeff has patent prosecution experience in a wide range of technologies including immunotherapeutics for treating diabetes, HIV and cancer, and DNA sequencing methods and related devices. Jeff also advises clients on intellectual property commercialization issues and has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting intellectual property license agreements, as well as advising on intellectual property issues in asset sale and merger transactions.
With bar and court admissions in both Canada and the U.S., Jeff is often called upon to advise Canadian clients on U.S. business and intellectual property law matters and advise U.S. clients on Canadian business and intellectual property law matters. Jeff also serves as a contact point for coordinating legal solutions for a wide range of U.S.-Canada cross-border legal issues, including those related to employment law, securities law, and corporate law and governance.
