Justin Philpott
Partner and Patent Attorney @Banner Witcoff
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WORK HISTORY
Partner and Patent Attorney @Banner Witcoff
Chicago, IL, US
Climate Tech:Justin has a passion for the environment. He has represented clients in patent matters to help develop and protect inventions in areas such as agrivoltaics, solar power conversion, solar panel mounting systems, EV charging, and battery power conservation, including having successfully obtained a granted petition under the USPTO’s Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program. He has presented on topics such as how tech-driven organizations can innovate for a green future, and he has researched and written about the intersection of patents and EV charging. On behalf of the Green IP committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Justin moderated a panel on “The Future of Clean Energy Driven by IP” at the 2024 IPO Annual Meeting. Also in 2024, Justin was included in Sagacious IP\'s GREEN100 Report, which provides a comprehensive scorecard and benchmark for measuring the progress of countries, industries, and individual companies in their sustainability efforts. Putting ideals to practice, Justin powers his home and EV using 33 solar panels in a 10.2 kW solar power system that also feeds the grid with excess sun-powered energy.5G Wireless Communications:Justin has spent more than a decade immersed in wireless communications technology. He has significant experience with standard-essential patents (SEPs). Justin currently leads a team of patent attorneys and agents in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in 5G and WiFi wireless communications. Justin has drafted or prosecuted more than 400 patent applications relating to 5G technology such as beam management, random access procedures, handover, cross-carrier scheduling, bandwidth part switching, network slicing, ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communications. He has presented on the intersection of 3GPP, WiFi, and video coding in the auto space at IAM Live\'s Auto IP 2025.
EDUCATION
Rutgers University
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgetown Law
Doctor of Law (J.D.)
University of Limerick
Electronics engineering study abroad semester (Ireland)
University College Cork
e-Law Intellectual Property Summer Institute (Ireland)
SKILLS
ABOUT JUSTIN PHILPOTT
As a patent prosecutor, litigator, and former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office examiner…
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