About
Jon Krueger has extensive training in the sciences. He studied solid state chemistry under Professor Tom Mallouk at the University of Texas, where he received a Ph.D. in 1996. Subsequently he worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, examining battery and fuel cell applications. He has worked as a lawyer in New York, Dallas, Palo Alto and Shanghai.
Work history
IPEXC LIMITED, Los Angeles, CA
General Counsel & VP Business Development, April 2012 – present
PANOVEL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Shanghai, China
General Counsel, March 2009 – April 2012
Chief legal officer of a semiconductor startup company from its inception, with full responsibility for all legal matters, including financing and intellectual property transactions.
WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, P.C., Shanghai, China
Associate, September 2005 – February 2009
Associate attorney with broad transactional experience in China and Silicon Valley, advising tech entrepreneurs in matters ranging from technology licensing negotiations to venture capital financings. Noteworthy larger transactions included the $2.2 billion attempted acquisition of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation by Mentor Corporation.
VINSON & ELKINS L.L.P., New York, New York
Associate, September 2001 – September 2005
Associate attorney representing banks, hedge funds and trade creditors in the bankruptcy cases of large technology companies including WorldCom, Global Crossing, Comdisco and Solutia.
FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI L.L.P., Austin, Texas
Scientific Advisor, May 1997 – September 1998
Prepared chemical, biochemical, and biotech patent applications and patentability opinions for clients including the University of Texas System and Baylor College of Medicine.
UNITED STATES PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE, Washington, D.C.
Patent Examiner, July 1996 – May 1997
Examined chemical patent applications relating to batteries, fuel cells and similar technologies.
Education and qualifications
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF LAW, Austin, Texas
Juris Doctor, May 2001
▪ Member, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
▪ Research Assistant to Professor Henry T.C. Hu
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS GRADUATE SCHOOL, Austin, Texas
Ph.D., Chemistry, December 1996
▪ Dissertation entitled Toward Artificial Photosynthesis: Zeolite-Based
Photochemical Systems
▪ Research Assistant to Professor Thomas E. Mallouk
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE, Knoxville, Tennessee
B.S., Chemistry, June 1985
▪ Graduated with High Honors
▪ A.D. Melaven – Rhenium Scholarship
Publications
Y. I. Kim, S. W. Keller, J. S. Krueger, G. B. Saupe, E. H. Yonemoto, and T. E. Mallouk, “Photochemical Charge Transfer and Hydrogen Evolution Mediated by Oxide Semiconductor Particles in Zeolite-Based Molecular Assemblies,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 101, 2491-2500 (1997)
J. S. Krueger, “Toward Artificial Photosynthesis: Zeolite-Based Photochemical Systems,” Ph.D. dissertation, 1996
Applied Industrial Chemistry, Jonathan S. Krueger, Ed.; CORD Communications, Inc.: Waco, 1996
J. S. Krueger, in Applied Biology/Chemistry: Animal Life Processes, Center for Occupational Research and Development: Waco, 1992
J. S. Krueger and T. E. Mallouk, “Redox Catalysis and Photochemistry in Zeolites,” in Kinetics and Catalysis in Microheterogeneous Media, M. Gratzel and K. Kalyanasundaram, Eds., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1991, pp. 461-490
D. Rong, Y. I. Kim, H.-G. Hong, J. S. Krueger, J. E. Mayer, and T. E. Mallouk, “Electrochemistry and Photoelectrochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes in Well-Ordered Surface Layers,” Coord. Chem. Rev., 97, 237-248 (1990)
J. S. Krueger, C. Lai, Z. Li, J. E. Mayer, and T. E. Mallouk, “Artificial Photosynthesis in Zeolite- Based Molecular Assemblies,” in Inclusion Phenonomena and Molecular Recognition, J. L. Atwood, Ed., Plenum Press (New York ), 1990, pp. 365-378
T. E. Mallouk, J. S. Krueger, J. E. Mayer, and C. M. G. Dymond, “Reductive Quenching of
Ruthenium(polypyridyl) Sensitizers by Cyanometallate Complexes,” Inorg. Chem., 28, 3507-3510 (1989)
J. S. Krueger, J. E. Mayer and T. E. Mallouk, “Long-Lived Light Induced Charge Separation in a Zeolite L-Based Molecular Triad,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 8232-8234 (1988)
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