Jerry Turner Sewell has over 37 years of experience practicing intellectual property law. Mr. Sewell focuses his practice on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the electrical, electronic, and computer fields. This practice includes software, internet, and data processing patent prosecution.

Previously, Mr. Sewell was a partner with the firm of Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear in Orange County, California, where he practiced for twenty-one years. While at Knobbe, he obtained patents in the electrical, electronic, and computer software fields as well as for fiber optic sensing systems for Stanford University.

Mr. Sewell worked for nine years as a Senior Design Engineer for Control Data Corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota, designing and testing processors, memories, peripheral devices, and systems for the aerospace industry. He also spent three years with Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles in New Orleans as a civil litigator. Mr. Sewell was in solo practice in Franklin, Tennessee, and Newport Beach, California, from 2005 until he joined the firm in February of 2015.