About Justin
Justin Miller trained first as an engineer. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and later turned to law at Stetson University College of Law, completing his law studies in 2007 and an LL.M. in 2010. That combination of technical and legal education shapes the way he approaches intellectual property work.
Miller began his career in the field. He worked at Chicago Bridge & Iron Company in a series of engineering roles, starting as a design engineer and moving into commissioning field engineer duties. He later took on systems turnover coordination. Those positions placed him on large industrial projects and gave him hands-on exposure to mechanical systems, project documentation, and field problem solving.
He shifted to patent practice in 2010 when he joined Larson & Larson, P.A. as a patent attorney. His move to the firm followed advanced legal study and registration to practice law in Florida. At Larson & Larson he has handled patent preparation and prosecution matters, often for clients in manufacturing, industrial equipment, and mechanical devices. His engineering background allows him to parse technical disclosures and translate them into patent applications and opinions.
Miller is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, a professional group he joined in 2010. That membership keeps him engaged with evolving patent law trends and practice issues. He also participates in firm-level client counseling and prosecution strategy, handling office actions, claim drafting, and freedom-to-operate assessments.
Colleagues say Miller brings practical experience from the shop floor to the drafting table. He tends to approach patent matters with an eye for how inventions are built and used, and he frames claim language to reflect functional and structural features that matter in practice. He has worked on both domestic patent filings and the preparation of technical disclosures for worldwide protection efforts.
Outside of casework, Miller’s background in mechanical engineering informs his interactions with inventors and technical teams. He asks detailed questions about operation, tolerances, and assembly, then converts that information into clear specification language and coherent claim sets. Today he is based in Florida at Larson & Larson, P.A., where he concentrates on patent prosecution, opinion work, and counseling clients on patent-related issues.
