John "Jay" Brooks III

Jay Brooks counsels small and medium sized business clients on the legal issues related to patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.  He also provides counsel for the business issues closely related to Intellectual Property including issues such as licensing, contracts, non-disclosures and other business agreements.

Jay Brooks has extensive experience across both the legal and business aspects of high technology businesses. He has a unique blend of business and legal experience that allows him to provide pertinent legal advice to business and technology leaders that carefully considers the legal and other priorities of their business. These experiences have been helpful in his providing counsel to small, medium and large clients to help them build their business as well as to help them develop, maintain or monetize intellectual property portfolios. Jay continues to maintain a close tie to the business aspects of clients by continuing to serve as in-house counsel to a 120+ person research and development organization.

Jay’s technical experience crosses many different fields to include computer software, computer security systems, data networking, artificial intelligence, big-data analysis, optics, medical devices, medical systems, mechanical devices as well as consumer products. His work has allowed him to develop a deep experience in the intellectual property and export issues specific to developing leading edge technologies under Government contract vehicles such as the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Innovation Research (STTR) programs.