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Joseph F. Janas is an associate and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where he advises clients on intellectual property issues including U.S. and foreign patent prosecution and patent risk management. He has experience in a number of technical fields, including mobile telephones, medical imaging systems, smart energy devices, agricultural systems, fluid control devices, childcare products, oil drilling systems, firearms and ammunition, financial systems, and internal combustion engines. Mr. Janas is a member of the firm’s Mechanical & Electromechanical Technologies Practice and Technology Industry Team.. Before joining Foley, Mr. Janas was a patent attorney with Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, L.L.C. His legal experience also includes serving as a summer associate and law clerk with Patterson Thuente Christensen Pedersen, P.A.. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Janas worked as a mechanical engineer with Motorola, Inc. in their Powertrain and Chassis Controls Division (now Continental AG). His experience at Motorola includes design and development of electronic transmission control modules, finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics simulations, and component failure analysis.

I am an intellectual property attorney licensed to practice in the State of Illinois. I am interested in the intersection of law, technology, and society. I have experience working on patent prosecution matters for clients in the following technology spaces: bitcoin/blockchain; financial technologies; business methods; trading systems; network and internet communication; navigation and routing; medical imaging; and medical devices.

Registered U.S. patent attorney who guides entrepreneurs and small business owners through the process for legal protection of their innovative products.  Trusted advisor for universities and corporations for preparation and prosecution of patent application for chemical inventions including specialty chemicals, water treatment chemicals, veterinary pharmaceutical products, animal feeds and additives, and pharmaceuticals.

Navin graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, with a minor in Economics.. While at Michigan, Navin was actively involved in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the International Society of Automation (ISA) and various other technical and professional organizations. Navin entered industry as a chemical engineering co-operative education student with Du Pont, a leading specialties chemicals manufacturer active across many industries, from food to energy.. After gaining experience in engineering and waste-water treatment, Navin accepted a research grant from the German government to pursue fluid mechanics research at the Technical University of Dresden. His work involved modeling particulate sedimentation behavior resulting from municipal water delivery pipe deterioration.. Upon finishing his undergraduate degree in 2007, Navin accepted a position with ArcelorMittal, one of the world's largest metal and mining companies, where his projects concerned the implementation of automated level-sensing equipment across the plant. He was also actively involved in valuable metal-alloy addition recuperation project and has worked closely with both chemists and metallurgists.. To pursue his interest in technology, Navin later decided to enter into the patent law field and attended the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology and received his Juris Doctorate in 2012. While at Chicago-Kent, Navin worked as a law clerk at various intellectual property boutiques in Chicago where he gained experience in patent preparation, prosecution and litigation across a variety of technological areas including the mechanical, electrical, chemical and software-based arts.