Jonathan Bowser

Jonathan Bowser — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Bowser is a registered patent attorney whose practice centers on post-grant proceedings before the PTAB (IPR/PGR), coupled with parallel district court litigation and Federal Circuit appeals. His published technical focus is high-tech and electrical/computer arts — video coding, wireless and networking standards, camera and image processing, AI, device security, financial transactions, and medical devices. His tracked matters are consistent: the Tesla/Intellectual Ventures disputes (wireless and digital-camera/image-processing patents), Apple v. Fintiv, and the Nearmap/EagleView dispute over aerial-imagery software. He also has an active ex parte reexamination and pre-litigation opinion practice, and has written and spoken publicly about the shift toward EPRs as IPR institution rates have fallen.

Side preference. The tracked docket is split 2 plaintiff / 2 defendant, and the underlying work reflects that balance: he is most often the PTAB challenger (Tesla's IPRs against Intellectual Ventures patents; Apple's IPR against Fintiv; numerous Unified Patents challenges to video-codec patents held by DivX, Velos Media, and IdeaHub), while also representing patent owners at the PTAB and defending operating companies accused of infringement — Tesla was the defendant in IV's district court campaign, and EagleView the defendant in Nearmap's suit. He does not appear to run an NPE/PAE-side plaintiff practice; his clients are operating companies and a defensive aggregator.

Firm context. All four tracked appearances are at Haynes and Boone, where he is now a partner in the Washington, D.C. office; Haynes Boone–sourced bios (2025) identify him as head of the firm's Patent Office Trials Practice Group, and earlier PTAB filings list him as counsel. I could not find reliably sourced information on prior firms, so none is reported here.

Notable matters and PTAB volume. He was part of the Haynes Boone team that secured a Federal Circuit affirmance for Unified Patents in a PTAB invalidation appeal (Feb. 2026), and the firm's October 2024 announcement of "dual patent wins" for EagleView credits him as a team member. In the Tesla–Intellectual Ventures PTAB campaign he was counsel on petitions that produced mixed results in July 2026 (some claims invalidated, others upheld). His bios state he has been counsel in more than 125 AIA trials (later bios say 150-plus), and Patexia's 2020 IPR report ranked him 80th among petitioner-side attorneys with 41 petitioner cases. He is a frequent author of the Reuters/Westlaw "IPR Tricks of the Trade" series on PTAB practice.

Bar / education. Virginia bar (2002); USPTO Reg. No. 54,574 (2003). J.D., American University Washington College of Law (2002); B.A., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lafayette College (1999).