Jonathan Pearce

Jonathan Pearce is an intellectual property attorney and strategist who helps companies protect what matters and build on it. Clients range from funded startups to established enterprises which rely on Jonathan for thoughtful counsel on patents and trademarks, and for the strategic judgment to decide what's worth protecting, how to frame licenses and other contracts to their advantage, and how to turn their IP into competitive assets.His practice spans patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, technology transactions, litigation, and adversarial proceedings before the USPTO. Jonathan has more than 20 years of experience counseling clients in interactive entertainment, software related technology and adjacent industries. These days, that means AI. He also has deep experience in the encoding, decoding, and transmission of digital audio and video. He has counseled numerous startups from founding to exit. He has an eye for strategic leverage of IP to accomplish business goals.Beyond the practice, Jonathan is an early-stage investor, backing founders building at the intersection of technology and ideas. He is regularly asked to speak at conferences and to act as a mentor for entrepreneurs and law students. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University where he received his degrees in computer science and business, his MBA, and his J.D.