Michael C. Jones Associate

Michael Jones is a member of the firm's Electrical/ Mechanical Practice Group.  Mr. Jones prepares and prosecutes applications relating to semi-conductor, electrical and mechanical arts.  Such work has included applications in the areas of display devices. medical imaging, image processing, tire technology and sports equipment.  Mr. Jones also has experience prosecuting appliacations directed to network and database management software, network infrustructure, multimedia distribution systems, memory storage devices, data encryption/decryption, mobile communications, semi-conductor devices and MEMS devices.  Mr. Jones also has experience with VoIP, GSM, IP Multicast and GPS technologies.

Mr. Jones also has specific prior experience designing and manufacturing MEMS devices using nano-fabrication techniques and also has prior experience developing micro-sensors for detecting chemicals and explosives.

*Licensed to Practice in Wisconsin, Washington, DC, and before the United States Patent and Trademark office only.  Practice limited to matters involving US Patent Law and matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Wisconsin, District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

University of Nevada (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2004)
DePaul University College of Law (J.D.  2007)

Adams Group, University of Nevada- Undergraduate Nanotechnology Researcher- Sept. 2001-July 2004- Mr. Jones worked on a number of Nanotechnology related projects including micro-sensor development using micro-cantilever and nanotube related technologies.  Mr. Jones also worked on projects related to adapting and ruggedizing and Atomic Force Microscope for use on space probes.


Ben Rogers et al., High Speed Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy in Liquid Using an Insulated Piezoelectric Cantilever, 74 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 4683 (2003).
Linda Manning et al., Self-Oscillating Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy, 74 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 4220 (2003).
Ben Rogers et al., Mercury Vapor Detection With a Self-sensing, Resonating Piezoelectric Cantilever, 74 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 4899 (2003).
Jesse D. Adams et al., Nanowatt Chemical Vapor  Detection with a Self-Sensing, Piezoelectric Microcantilever Array, 83 Applied Physics Letters 3428 (2003).
Lai A. Pinnaduwage et al., A Microsensor for Trinitrotuluene Vapour, 425 Nature 474 (2003)
Ben Rogers et al., Tapping Mode Atomic Force Microscopy in Liquid With an Insulated Piezoelectric Micro-Actuator, 73 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 3242 (2002)