Jonathan E. Bachand

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Jonathan E. Bachand — Knobbe Martens (Washington, D.C. office); IP litigation partner

Specialty / focus areas. Bachand's practice centers on adversarial patent disputes in the medical device, pharmaceutical/life sciences, diagnostics, and chemical-processing/industrial technology spaces, with a heavy Section 337 docket. Firm bios describe him as co-chair of Knobbe Martens' International Trade Commission and Hatch-Waxman litigation practices, and he writes and speaks regularly on ITC domestic-industry practice (including commentary on the Lashify and Wuhan Federal Circuit decisions). His tracked case, Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. et al. v. Waaree Energies Limited et al. (S.D. Tex. 4:25-cv-00532), a TOPCon solar-cell patent suit over U.S. Pat. 11,824,136, adds photovoltaic/semiconductor fabrication to that profile — consistent with his chemical-engineering-adjacent practice rather than software, Wi-Fi/standards, or NPE-style consumer electronics work.

Side preference. The tracked data is thin — one appearance, on the defendant side in the Jinko matter, zero plaintiff-side appearances — but it does not describe his overall practice, which is genuinely bilateral. Firm materials show him acting for patent owners seeking exclusion orders (Masimo, Acera Surgical, Fisher & Paykel) and for accused infringers and IPR petitioners/defendants (Amphastar, Lupin, Amax Group). He should be characterized as a defense-leaning firm-side litigator who takes both sides rather than as either an operating-company defense specialist or an NPE/PAE plaintiff's counsel.

Firm context and bar/education. He has spent his career at Knobbe Martens and was one of the founding attorneys who opened the firm's Washington, D.C. office in 2008; no prior firm history surfaced in search. He is a former law clerk to Judge Kimberly A. Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, holds a J.D. from USC Gould School of Law (2006), is admitted in Washington, D.C. (2009), and is a registered patent practitioner (USPTO Reg. No. 67,884). Sources: Knobbe Martens professional page and firm press releases; Super Lawyers profile; CourtListener/PACER docket entries.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. He appears regularly in PTAB proceedings — as petitioner's counsel (e.g., Acera Surgical v. Research Foundation for SUNY, IPR2022-01036/01000; Tokyo Ohka Kogyo v. Fujifilm Electronic Materials, PGR2022-00010, final written decision holding all challenged claims unpatentable) and as patent-owner/backup counsel and oral advocate (Perma Pure v. Masimo, IPR2019-01583, all challenged claims upheld; Illumina and ASM IP Holding IPRs). District court and ITC highlights include the Masimo v. Apple pulse-oximetry investigation (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1276), which produced the limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist order against certain Apple Watch models; Acera Surgical v. Nanofiber Solutions (D. Del.); Par Pharmaceutical v. Amphastar (D. Del., favorable pre-expert settlement); and Advanced Aerodynamics v. Amax Group (S.D. Tex., plaintiff withdrew claims with prejudice after a Rule 11 motion). In the tracked Jinko/Waaree case he appeared pro hac vice for Waaree in March 2025 and handled early filings; a public disposition of the claims against Waaree is not verifiable from available sources, so no outcome should be stated for that matter.