Joel N. Bock

Joel N. Bock is a Partner in Dentons' Venture Technology practice. His primary practice area is Intellectual Property Law, and he counsels companies across sectors including AI, blockchain, telecom, energy and life sciences on a wide range of intellectual property issues and on structuring and negotiating transactions involving IP assets.

His work includes mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private placements, strategic investments, licensing, strategic alliances, and the drafting and negotiation of contracts. He regularly advises on IP asset assessment and valuation, risk and portfolio analysis, patent opinion work including freedom to operate and patentability, design-around strategies, trade secret protection, portfolio development and open source issues.

He has litigated complex patent infringement suits relating to technologies including ad tech, call center systems, cloud storage, data backup, optical switches and systems, medical devices, semiconductor chips and packages, telecommunications systems, electronic circuit designs, MEMS-based sensors, electronic time stamping and authentication, machine tools, plastic extrusion, fuel injection systems and pharmaceuticals. He represents clients in IP enforcement and defence of trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights.

He has been recognised by Chambers USA as one of the leading practitioners in the IP sector for 15 consecutive years, most recently in 2022, and is recommended in the IAM Patent 1000 in all categories — prosecution, litigation and transactions — from 2016 to 2026. He has also been listed in Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars (2014–2024) and recognised as Technology Attorney of the Year in New York in 2021 and 2022 by The Lawyer Network, and in The Best Lawyers in America for Patent Law in 2021.

Before his career in law, he was a design engineer in the field of spread spectrum communications systems. He is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office and has successfully prosecuted patent applications in fields including AI-based systems, ad tech, clean energy technologies, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, automotive systems, electronics, software, optics and mechanical devices. He is also involved in trademark and copyright prosecution and strategic counselling.

He holds a JD from New York University School of Law (1993), an MBA from St. John's University (1987) and a BSEE, magna cum laude, from Pratt Institute (1983).