Jeffrey Whittle

Practice Areas

IP, Technology And Data; IP Licensing And Transactions; Patents - Electrical Engineering And Software; Intellectual Property Disputes And Litigation; Information Technology; Corporate; IP Licensing And Transactions; Commercial

Career

Jeffrey Whittle provides nearly 30 years of legal experience to clients in the energy and high tech industries. He advises on strategic and complex technology transactions, licensing, patent protection, portfolio analysis, and other contentious and transactional intellectual property matters including inter partes reexaminations, post-grant reviews, and derivation proceedings, among other disputed cases. Jeffrey is Co-Head of Womble Bond Dickinson’s Energy and Natural Resources Industry Sector and Head of the Energy IP Subsector, while serving as Managing Partner of the firm’s Houston office.

Jeffrey has been recognized by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 United States, WIPR Leaders, and Client Choice, among others, for his outstanding work, career and contributions to law, technology, and intellectual property. Additionally, he was awarded the Texas Trailblazer Award as a Texas Lawyer in 2019, he was the Frank Barnes Award Winner for LES USA/Canada in 2019, and he was named Global IP Attorney of the Year by Legal Era in 2018.

Jeffrey is the past president and chair of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) for the USA and Canada (2015-2016) and served on the LES Board for over seven years. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Americas Committee for Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). He also currently serves as President-Elect of the Certified License Professionals (CLP), a licensing certifying professional society. Jeffrey is a frequent and highly sought-after speaker and author, nationally and internationally, on various intellectual property/licensing/technology topics.

Jeffrey keeps up with the always changing intellectual property field through memberships in various legal and professional associations, including the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Federal Circuit Bar Association, and Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc., the Board of Visitors for Wake Forest University School of Law, the Advisory Council for the University of Houston Law Center Intellectual Property Institute, and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Energy Law. He also has served on the International Advisory Board of the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP), M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Technology Review Committee, IP Law360's Advisory Board, as well as on boards of various charitable organizations. Jeffrey is also a member of the Texas Bar College and the Texas Bar Foundation.

Professional Memberships

Certified Licensing Professional - Board of Governors 2018 – 2020

Institute for Energy Law, Advisory Board, 2021

Licensing Executives Society International, Americas Committee, Co-Chair, 2019 – 2021

Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP), International Advisory Board, 2019 – 2020

Wake Forest University School of Law, Board of Visitors, 2019 – present

University of Houston Law Center, Intellectual Property Law Institute, Advisory Council, 2010 – present

Licensing Executives Society USA & Canada; Chair and President, 2015 – 2016

IP Law 360 Advisory Board, 2010

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Technology Review Committee, 2008 – 2009

American Intellectual Property Law Association

Federal Circuit Bar Association

Florida Bar Association

Houston Bar Association

Houston Intellectual Property Law Association

Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers

North Carolina Bar Association

State Bar of Texas

Texas Bar College

Texas Bar Foundation, Sustaining Life Fellow