Johnson & Associates is a boutique intellectual property law firm dedicated to providing quality legal counsel for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, electronic, financial and mechanical companies. Based in Savannah, Ga., the firm works with a wide array of national and international clients. Founded by James Johnson, Ph.D., a patent attorney with more than 25 years of experience and a former partner at King & Spalding LLP, the firm comprises a highly diverse group of talented attorneys, patent agents, and patent professionals. Johnson & Associates’ attorneys and agents have educational, research, and patent prosecution experience in many areas, including organic chemistry, molecular biology, neuroscience, genetics, pharmacology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, immunology, drug delivery, medical devices, microfluidics, mechanical, electrical, computer software and architecture, mobile communications, and aerospace. The firm’s legal expertise extends into every area of intellectual property, including domestic and foreign patent prosecution, patent portfolio management, intellectual property opinions (freedom-to-operate, patentability, validity), due diligence and merger and acquisition support, technology licensing and joint ventures, litigation, trademarks and false advertising, trade secrets and non-competes, and copyrights.

The firm utilizes a unique virtual firm model which helps keep overhead costs down and enables the firm to serve its clients with greater time and cost efficiency.  Firm members communicate fluidly using such tools as video conferencing and are tied into a fast dedicated server that further facilitates collaboration and the ability to access timely information such as docket reports and electronic file histories on the fly.