Jonathan A. Patchen

Jonathan A. Patchen is an attorney and partner at Taylor & Company Law Offices, LLP. Jonathan graduated with Honors from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. Degree in Economics and a B.A. Degree in Political Science (2000) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree in 2003 from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where Jonathan was the Managing Editor of the Harvard International Law Review (2002-2003), and was ranked Best Oralist in the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Northeast Regional Competition (2003). Following law school, Jonathan worked in Seattle, Washington as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Ronald M. Gould, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2003-2004). Prior to joining Taylor & Company, Jonathan was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP. He is a member of the California State Bar and the New York State Bar, and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central Districts of California. Jonathan is a member of the Executive Committee for the San Francisco Bar Association's Litigation Section; the Leadership Development Committee of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers; and the Harvard Law School Association for Northern California. Jonathan's publications include Reversing the Rights Holder Assault, Trademark World (June 2007) (with Lisa Peets) and Viacom v. YouTube: Napster and Grokster all over again, or is YouTube exactly what the DMCA had in mind?, Intellectual Property Newsletter (April 2007) (with Lisa Peets).