Jared Robert Clark, J.D.

Jared Robert Clark, a registered patent attorney with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), maintains a practice that pairs original patent prosecution with complex technology transactions and IT procurement. Registered before the USPTO since 2008, he has drafted approximately 150 provisional and non-provisional applications over his career, concentrated in computer science and electrical engineering subject matter — including software, databases, networking, cryptography, semiconductors, and flash memory. He is known for a “front-loaded” approach that invests heavily in the disclosure and drafting phase to reduce downstream prosecution churn and produce higher-value, litigation-ready assets.

Jared's technical foundation is in electrical engineering, which he studied at South Dakota State University (with additional coursework at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom), graduating with honors. That background allows him to work fluently across advanced technology areas, including computer software and systems, encryption and information security, networking and mobile telecommunications, semiconductors, sensors and detection apparatus, high-power and renewable-energy circuitry, and jet-engine and advanced aircraft systems.

Over the course of his career, Jared has prepared and prosecuted applications for leading innovators — including Google, Microsoft, Mastercard, General Electric, Huawei, Boeing, Cisco, Netflix, Oracle, and Motorola Mobility — both in private practice and through secondment arrangements. He has managed patent dockets exceeding 500 assets and has built strategic patent programs from the ground up for clients new to formal IP protection.

Beyond prosecution, Jared has substantial experience as embedded technology-transactions and IT-procurement counsel. As Associate General Counsel at a Fortune 500 gaming and hospitality enterprise, he served as the chief legal liaison to the company's chief information officer and IT organization, negotiating and closing more than 400 commercial contracts with an aggregate value exceeding $1 billion — spanning outsourcing, SaaS/PaaS licensing, joint development, and enterprise software deals. By in-housing substantive work and implementing an outside-counsel spend-management program across 200-plus firms, he reduced legal spend by an estimated $350,000 to $400,000 per year. During the same period, he established the company's first strategic patent program, securing protection for cryptographic payment technologies.

Jared also served as primary IP and procurement counsel to a Silicon Valley aerospace innovation venture, supporting an autonomous-aircraft program through invention harvesting, procurement, and IP structuring in a fast-moving research-and-development environment. He has likewise advised technology start-ups and growth companies on entity formation, portfolio development, and IP strategy.

Earlier in his career, Jared built and led the intellectual property practice at a regional firm and was recruited by a national renewable-energy client to design and run its patent program, increasing the client's active US patent applications from 6 to more than 60 within a year and drafting an accelerated application that issued in roughly ten months. Clients and colleagues have consistently noted his writing, technical fluency, and even temperament, particularly his ability to work effectively with demanding engineers and in-house counsel.

Selected Representations

• Served as patent counsel secondee to a leading technology company, mining inventions and drafting applications directed to high-priority search and advertising algorithms.
• Established a strategic patent program for a publicly traded gaming and hospitality company, securing non-provisional applications for cryptographic payment technologies that exceeded PCI requirements.
• Designed an intellectual property program from the ground up for a national renewable-energy client, increasing active US patent applications from 6 to more than 60.
• Represented a NYSE-listed company on amendments to a $100-million-plus, multi-year outsourced-services agreement, drafting roughly 15 amendments and later joining an executive committee charged with developing exit strategies.
• Served as primary counsel on a $13-million multi-year SaaS licensing and joint-development transaction, harmonizing legacy vendor agreements with the new contract.
• Advised on a $10-million, mission-critical enterprise HR-platform deal requiring integration across roughly 40 enterprise systems.
• Negotiated a settlement following a mission-critical system outage, securing cash remedies and strengthened service-level terms without litigation.
• Led IT due diligence and transition planning for the divestiture of a regulated business unit, mapping contract transferability and informing the financial accounting of separation.
• Implemented an outside-counsel spend-management system across 200-plus firms, contributing to an approximately 10% year-over-year reduction in billings.