the firm's post-grant practitioners are some of the most experienced in the country.

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About Our Law Firm

Headquartered within steps of the USPTO with an affiliate office in Tokyo, Oblon is one of the largest law firms in the United States focused exclusively on intellectual property law.

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History

Get to know our History

1968
Norman Oblon with Stanley Fisher and Marvin Spivak launched what was to become Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, one of the nation's leading full-service intellectual property law firms.

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Global Reach

Our Local and Global Reach

Outside the US, we service companies based in Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and farther corners of the world. Our culturally aware attorneys speak many languages, including Japanese, French, German, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Chinese.

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A few of our ACCOLADES

Oblon's professionals provide industry-leading IP legal services to many of the world's most admired innovators and brands.

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR Career

From the minute you walk through our doors, you'll become a valuable part of a team that fosters a culture of innovation, client service and collegiality.

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Telephone: 703-413-3000
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued final rules implementing the inventor's oath or declaration provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) on August 14, 2012.

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Diane  Jones

Diane Jones

Technical Advisor ∙ US Office
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Diane Jones is a Technical Advisor in the Electrical and Mechanical Patent Prosecution practice group where she focuses on drafting patent applications for domestic and international clients. She has technical expertise in the fields of telecommunications, including LTE, 4G, 5G, internet of things, diversity antennas, MIMO, GPS, OFDM, wireless sensor networks, packet networks; electrical circuits, such as: inverters, converters, control systems, feedback loops, phase modulation, isolation circuits, floating cells in memory systems, flash memory circuits, circuit isolation techniques, and transformers, business methods, semiconductors, 3D printing, stereolithography (STL), fused deposit modeling (FDM) additive manufacturing (AM), nanotechnology, thin film technologies, batteries, magnetic sensing, NMR, imaging, autonomous vehicles, automotive technology, such as catalytic NOx reduction/oxidation systems, and well field technology.

Ms. Jones worked at a local firm for ten years as a Director of patent search groups. She managed a large team of patent analysts and is skilled in personnel development, training and teambuilding. Her technical experience includes analyzing cutting edge technical disclosures for thousands of inventions. Ms. Jones managed PCT search and opinion writing, validity, patentability and freedom to operate search teams. She spent two years in Gurgaon, Haryana, India opening a search office and training Indian patent analysts in patentability and validity searching.

Ms. Jones is a former examiner with the USPTO, where she specialized in magnetic sensing.


Education

  • University of South Florida (M.S.E.E.)
  • University of South Florida (M.S.)
    • Physics
  • University of South Florida (B.A.)
    • Mathematics
  • University of South Florida (B.S.)
    • Physics

Accolades

  • Graduated Cum Laude in Physics and Mathematics
  • Received an Academic Fellowship at the graduate level from 1982-1987