Gordon has assisted both large and small companies to develop, build, maintain and enforce patent, trade secret, and trademark portfolios as well as defend against threats of infringement.  This includes assessing competitive patent portfolios, designing around threatening patents, and writing formal opinions on validity and infringement.  As a registered patent attorney with an AV Preeminent and High Ethical Standing peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell, Gordon has written and prosecuted many hundreds of patents through the USPTO, EPO and the major Asian patent offices.

Gordon is an active participant in the US Patent Pro Bono Program of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Denver and has been awarded the Achievement Certificate for each year since 2018.

Gordon has worked in-house managing, licensing, and enforcing significant portfolios in optics, satellite and cellular communications, navigation systems, and other technologies.  As outside counsel he has prosecuted portfolios in silicon chip manufacturing and packaging, wireless and wired network routing and protocols, optical systems, audio and video compression, targeted advertising, software as a service, artificial intelligence, image understanding, camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, financial technology, and a variety of mechanical devices, among others.