Intellectual Property attorney Jeffrey G. Mote has joined Taft’s Chicago office. Mote has a wide-ranging intellectual property litigation and counseling practice focusing on the protection, enforcement, and defense of intellectual property rights.

Mote has litigated patent, copyright, trademark, unfair competition, and trade secret cases throughout the United States and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a broad range of clients. In addition, he also represents clients in intellectual property transactions, including those involving mergers and acquisitions, licensing, and intellectual property portfolio management.

Mote’s patent litigation experience involves a broad array of technologies and industries. He has worked on matters related to plastic injection molding methods and machinery, consumer electronics, digital video and audio signal processing, data encryption, programmable CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machinery, navigational avionics and control systems, mechanical devices, wireless communication systems, eCommerce business methods, medical devices, and software used by network servers and for web page generation.

He received his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, magna cum laude, and a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mote clerked for the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.