JD Harriman is a partner at Foundation Law Group LLP and is the creator of the Mona LisaTM method of patent analysis. As outside patent counsel for Steve Jobs at Apple, NeXT, and Pixar, he was instrumental in establishing their IP infrastructure. He is at the forefront of high-level strategic advising on intellectual property matters (having done so for OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s first company, and for Intel, Sun Microsystems, and many other leading tech companies). JD’s expert witness experience includes the biggest trade secret espionage trial of this century. 

JD received his juris doctor from USC Law School and is admitted to practice law in California and by the United States Patent Bar. He received his BS in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University.  He has served as the Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the ABA International Law Section.

JD’s publications and presentations include:

• “Challenges in Enforcing Trade Secret Protection Against Chinese Companies” Daily Journal April 2024
• “AI Voice Copying” Fox2 News, San Francisco June 2024.
• “The Search for a Happy Median Against ‘Trolls’,” National Law Journal, September 9, 2013
• “NPE Battleground — Good Intentions Vs. Good Results,” Law360, March 28, 2013
• “Bilski’s impact on software patents,” Intellectual Property and Technology News, October 2010
• “New considerations in the patent process Patent Law 2009,” Top Lawyers on Trends and Key Strategies for the Upcoming Year, January 2009
• “The Implications of Intellectual Property Protection,” Patent Enforcement Best Practices, March 2007
  Panelist, Q&A at the Los Angeles Developer Patent Summit, April 2013

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