Caleb J. Schmitt

Biography

Caleb Schmitt is a registered Patent Agent and electrical engineer with extensive experience helping companies identify, protect, and leverage intellectual property across a wide range of technologies. His practice spans patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio development, invention mining, freedom-to-operate analyses, patentability assessments, and strategic IP counseling.

Caleb has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications in fields including automotive systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum computing, software, medical devices and diagnostics, building control systems, networking technologies, power electronics, embedded systems, digital and analog circuitry, optics, and industrial technologies. He has worked with startups, universities, and Fortune 500 companies, providing practical guidance that aligns intellectual property strategy with business objectives.

Prior to joining the firm, Caleb served as Senior Patent Agent for a start-up automotive OEM, where he led the development of the company’s patent portfolio from inception. In that role, he managed invention intake and evaluation, guided filing strategy across utility and design patents, chaired patent review board meetings, directed outside counsel, and advised engineering, design, and executive leadership on intellectual property matters. He also served as the company’s design patent lead, developing strategies to protect product aesthetics and brand-defining features.

Before moving in-house, Caleb practiced at both national and boutique intellectual property law firms, where he drafted and prosecuted patent applications across diverse technology sectors and conducted freedom-to-operate, invalidity, and patentability analyses for clients ranging from emerging companies to established industry leaders.

Caleb is also a U.S. Army veteran with deployment experience throughout the Middle East.