A former manufacturing engineer and patent examiner, associate Jason Fountain helps guide clients through patent-infringement cases and other complex intellectual property and technology matters.
Jason joined O’Melveny’s Washington, DC, office after nearly a decade with the US Patent and Trademark Office, where he examined patents in the mechanical arts. Before his time at the USPTO, Jason spent six years as a design and industrialization engineer with Michelin. Clients benefit from Jason’s insight into how patent examiners operate and from his hands-on experience implementing design changes in complex products.
Jason also contributes to the firm’s pro bono practice, including by working on voter-protection and voting-rights matters in collaboration with the NAACP, Veteran’s advocacy focusing on discharge upgrades, and working with a pro se applicant to write and file a brief at the PTAB.
- Won a default judgment that included statutory damages and a permanent injunction against defendants for the selling of goods that violated client’s protected trademarks.
- Secured a consent judgment, including an injunction, in favor of our client in a trademark enforcement case. Defendant was selling our client’s trademarked goods, and using our client’s protected trademarks to promote the unauthorized sale of goods.
Admissions
Bar Admission
- District of Columbia
Education
- The George Washington University, J.D.: Staff Editor, AIPLA Quarterly Journal
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, B.S., Mechanical Engineering