Jonathan V. Lewis

Jonathan V. Lewis is a patent litigation attorney at Smith Anderson, focusing his practice on complex disputes before district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). His expertise spans a wide range of technologies, including artificial intelligence, software, semiconductors, robotics, vehicle sensors, wearable devices, electromechanical devices, video encoding, displays, wireless technologies, satellites, medical devices, sensors, and distributed networks.

Lewis primarily represents defendants, protecting the innovations and products of Fortune 100 and 500 technology companies against patent infringement claims. His sole tracked appearance, as counsel for Cisco Systems, Inc. in Quicker Connections LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., aligns with this defense-side focus. This case involves patents related to high-speed networking platforms, hardware, and software products, and is currently pending in the Eastern District of Texas with an associated IPR proceeding (IPR2025-01088) at the PTAB.

His notable experience includes successfully representing a global leader in warehouse automation systems in an ITC investigation, where he demonstrated infringement after a week-long trial, and securing summary judgment of non-infringement for a leading health and fitness technology company in a case involving wearable devices. He has also defended global technology leaders against patent infringement claims concerning distributed networking and worldwide leaders in technology and software solutions against claims involving artificial intelligence, data security, privacy, and encryption. Lewis regularly appears in PTAB proceedings, and his practice is informed by 12 years of experience as a primary examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, where he drafted decisions for post-grant proceedings.

Lewis earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2018 and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University (2003). He is admitted to practice in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.