Jesús Joanós i Timoneda, Ph.D., has over 20 years of intellectual property legal experience in law firm practice and as in-house counsel built on a foundation of eight years of faculty and postdoctoral academic work.
 
Jesús’ extensive intellectual property experience includes patent drafting and prosecution, patentability and infringement opinion preparation, intellectual property law litigation and product development strategies. He also has experience in contracts related to pharmaceutical research and development. Jesús’ technical areas of practice include chemistry, microchip testing and manufacturing, materials technology, energy conversion devices, analytical instrumentation, industrial chemistry processes, medical devices, and pharmaceutical products and health supplements.
 
Prior to joining Ice Miller, Jesús served as assistant general counsel at a global healthcare company where his work included patent due diligence in over 30 pharmaceutical deal projects. He advised domestic and foreign pharmaceutical company representatives on patent-related matters and worked on small-molecule, formulation and chemical process patent application drafting and prosecution, including petition and appeal practice concerning U.S. patents and related ex-U.S. counterparts. 

Jesús is fluent in Catalan and Spanish, and reading comprehension in French.