Tom Pratt focuses his practice on litigating and trying complex intellectual property matters. Tom has successfully represented clients in all phases of litigation, including trial, preliminary injunction hearings, Markman hearings and other pre-trial hearings, discovery, and pre- and post-trial motions. Tom has also engaged in successful appellate practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Since joining the firm in 1992, Tom has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants as lead and co-counsel in litigation involving diverse subjects such as computer software, website technology, contact lenses, athletic footwear, consumer electronics products, digital watermarking, exercise monitoring technology, interactive TV program guides, steam turbine technology and medical devices. Tom has also represented clients in counseling matters regarding various computer software and hardware patents, including patents relating to modems, DRAM technology and computer graphics.

In addition to his active practice, Tom also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Northwestern Law School where he teaches Patent Trial Practice. Tom is a contributing author of the Patent Trial Advocacy Casebook, Second Edition, published in 2010 by the ABA and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Since 2005, Tom has been annually selected as an "Illinois Super Lawyer". The Super Lawyers list represents the top 5% of Illinois lawyers, as chosen through a peer balloting process involving 47,000 lawyers from across Illinois, and through a research and review panel organized by Law & Politics magazine. Law & Politics asked the attorneys to name the best lawyers they personally observed in action. Tom was also named to the Leading Lawyers Network. Based upon peer nominations and approval by the network's Advisory Board, only the top lawyers are nominated and eligible for membership in the Leading Lawyers Network.

Tom earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1989, where he was selected for membership in the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Societies. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kansas in 1992. Tom graduated Order of the Coif and was an Associate Editor of the Law Review.

Tom is a registered patent attorney and is admitted to practice in the state of Illinois. He is also admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and numerous federal district courts.

Tom practices in the Chicago office of Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.