Jonathan David Ball

Dr. Ball is a partner in King & Spalding’s Intellectual Property practice group in the New York office. He regularly counsels U.S. and foreign clients in all areas of intellectual property, with a focus on patent diligence and opinions, licensing, litigation, prosecution and portfolio management in a variety of technologies, including:

• chemicals
• polymers
• pharmaceuticals
• biotechnology
• medical devices
• semiconductors
• cosmetics
• paints and coatings
• tobacco
• food sciences
• personal care products
• consumer products
• mechanical arts

Before joining King & Spalding in 2006, Dr. Ball practiced at Morgan & Finnegan LLP where he began his career as a Summer Associate in 2000. He graduated cum laude from the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, where he was a finalist in the 2000 Carrico Moot Court competition, a Moot Court Board member, and received three CALI Book Awards for the highest grades in Patent Law, Mass Media Law, and Corporate Finance.

Dr. Ball holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Indiana. He was involved in research in the fields of small molecule organic synthesis, synthesis of solid-state organic inclusion compounds, and physical chemistry of organic radicals.

• Dr. Ball spoke at the 2008 fall meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) on the topic of “Fixing Patent Ownership After the Fact.”
  
  
• Co-authored a paper with Ethan Horwitz titled “Patent Trolls Look to Europe,” published in the September/October 2008 issue of Executive Counsel Magazine.
  
  
• “In Search of Through-Solvent Electronic Coupling in Flexible Biradicals,” Malcolm D. E. Forbes, Jonathan D. Ball, and Nikolai I. Avdievich, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 4707-4708, (1996)
  
  
• “Chain Dynamics Cause the Disappearance of Spin-Correlated Radical Pair Polarization in Flexible Biradicals,” Malcolm D. E. Forbes, Nikolai I. Avdievich, Gregory R. Schulz, and Jonathan D. Ball, J. Phys. Chem., 100, 13887-13891, (1996)
  
  
• “Influence of Molecular Structure on the Rate of Intersystem Crossing in Flexible Biradicals,” Yuri P. Tsentalovich, Olga B. Morozova, Nikolai I. Avdievich, Gennady S. Ananchenko, Alexandra V. Yurkovskaya, Jonathan D. Ball, and Malcolm D. E. Forbes, J. Phys. Chem. A, 101, 8809-8816 (1997)