D. Jeremy Harrison
Practice Areas
Industries
Education
- Franklin Pierce Law Center, JD, cum laude, 2007
- Brigham Young University, BS, 2004
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Jeremy is a partner in the Vorys Houston office and member of the technology and intellectual property group. He advises clients on intellectual property matters, including patent and trademark law. Jeremy has experience preparing and prosecuting foreign and domestic patent applications in the mechanical, electrical, computer and chemical fields. In addition, he has extensive experience with foreign and domestic trademark prosecution and procurement. In recent years, Jeremy has assisted clients with patent related issues with downhole tools used in the oil and gas industry, as well as with medical devices, turbomachinery, pumps, compressors, separators, bearings and seals.
Jeremy received his J.D. cum laude from Franklin Pierce Law Center, where he was a senior articles editor for the Pierce Law Review. While in law school, Jeremy served as a full-time judicial intern for the Honorable Lynn N. Hughes in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University, where he also minored in Spanish.
Professional and Community Activities
- Intellectual Property Owners Association, Member, 2017
Honors & Awards
- The Legal 500, 2016
- Lexology Legal Influencers, Cross-border and US IP Law, Q3 2020
News
- 11/17/2021In the third episode of the Vorys IP podcast, host Jeremy Harrison, a partner in the Vorys Houston office, is joined by Bill Klima, of counsel in the Vorys Washington office, as they the discuss the process of working with U.S. patent examiners.
- 11/3/2021In the second episode of the Vorys IP podcast, host Jeremy Harrison, a partner in the Vorys Houston office, is joined by Maureen Kelly, an associate in the Vorys Pittsburgh office, as they the discuss the basics of trademark law.
- 10/20/2021Vorys is proud to introduce the Vorys IP podcast. Each episode will feature a conversation with a Vorys attorney or patent practitioner and will provide an overview and shed light on a specific aspect of IP or trademark law.
- 11/9/2017
- 1/25/2017Vorys announced that a team of four AmLaw 50 patent lawyers and their staff have joined the firm’s Houston office. Carey Jordan, Iona Kaiser and Jeremy Harrison will join as partners and Donna Haynes will join as of counsel.
Insights
- 6/30/2021Yesterday, in a 5-4 decision the United States Supreme Court held, in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. (No. 20-440) (J. Kagan) that, while “well grounded in centuries-old fairness principles,” the doctrine of assignor estoppel has its limits.
- 6/7/2021One risk patent holders assume in sending demand or cease and desist letters to potential infringers is that the recipient may respond by filing a declaratory judgment action, and thus initiate suit in a local and/or advantageous forum for the infringer.
- 4/21/2021The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently implemented the Fast-Track Pilot Program for Appeals Related to COVID–19, which advances and fast-tracks ex parte appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
- 1/20/2021In a previous IP Alert, we reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced the COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program to accelerate examination of certain patent applications directed to products or processes related to the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.
- 9/23/2020In an effort to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced various programs to expedite certain patent and trademark applications specifically directed to COVID-19 treatments and prevention.
- 8/12/2020This is the final alert in an eight part series.
- 8/3/2020This is the seventh of eight alerts Vorys will publish to summarize the topics discussed at the USPTO and PPAC Quarterly Meeting.
- 7/20/2020This is the sixth of eight alerts Vorys will publish to summarize the topics discussed at the USPTO and PPAC Quarterly Meeting.
- 7/15/2020This is the fifth of eight alerts Vorys will be publishing to summarize topics discussed at the Quarterly Meeting. This note summarizes the Office’s comments on artificial intelligence (AI) for enhanced searching, Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) auto-classification efforts, and AI policy.
- 7/7/2020As part of our dedication to helping our clients stay up-to-date on the ever-changing landscape as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve compiled the following highlights of changes to patent, trademark, and copyright operations around the world.
- 7/6/2020This is the fourth of eight alerts Vorys will publish to summarize the topics discussed at the USPTO and PPAC Quarterly Meeting.
- 6/26/2020This is the third of eight alerts Vorys will be publishing to summarize topics discussed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Patent Public Advisory Committee Patent Public Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting.
- 6/19/2020This is the second of eight alerts Vorys will publish to summarize topics discussed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the Office) and the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) recently held their Patent Public Advisory Committee Quarterly Meeting.
- 5/28/2020The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on an official notice that it will grant further relief for certain patent-related fees and deadlines, on May 27, 2020.
- 4/8/2020As part of our dedication to helping our clients stay up-to-date on the ever-changing landscape as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve compiled the following highlights of changes to patent, trademark, and copyright operations around the world.
- 4/1/2020The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced on March 31, 2020 that certain patent and trademark filing and payment deadlines have been extended in response to delays caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
- 3/30/2020In these unforeseen and unique circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, we want to keep our clients abreast of how patent and trademark offices around the world are handling deadlines and other issues.
- 6/26/2018The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Federal Circuit decision dealing with patent damages for lost sales in foreign jurisdictions. WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., 586 U.S. ____ (June 22, 2018), Case No. 16-1011 (Thomas J). The Court concluded that U.S. patent owners can get damages from overseas sales lost through infringement.
- 4/4/2018Intellectual property (IP) attorneys (both in-house and outside counsel) are increasingly turning to outsourcing and offshoring to complete many patent-related tasks, such as prior art searches, patent drafting, formalizing patent drawings, and general patent prosecution.
- 4/3/2018Vorys Partners Carey Jordan and Jeremy Harrison co-authored an article for the April 2018 edition of Texas Lawyer titled “Intelligently Managing Company Patent Spend.”
- 2/22/2018Carey Jordan and Jeremy Harrison, partners in the Vorys Houston office, authored an article for IP Law360 titled “Tips For Reassessing Company Patent Strategies.”
- 12/19/2017In today’s tumultuous global economy, in-house intellectual property (IP) attorneys and managers are tasked with effectively protecting company innovation while facing ever-dwindling budgets.
- 9/7/2017Jeremy Harrison, a partner in the Vorys Houston office and a member of the intellectual property and technology group, authored an article for the Houston Business Journal titled “What Startups Should Know About Intellectual Property.”
- 7/7/2017Jeremy Harrison, a partner in the Houston office, and Thomas Thrash, a patent agent in the Houston office, co-authored an article for IP Law360 Titled "Effective Utilization Of The Patent Prosecution Highway."