Focus Areas
Examples of Jacob’s experience include:
- Bringing a successful motion for summary judgment of non-infringement in a complex patent and trade secret litigation on behalf of a biotechnology company.
- Arguing successfully on behalf of a major multinational corporation for the invalidation of all challenged patent claims in a petition for inter partes
- Proving ownership of valuable performance motion capture technology used in making major motion pictures as part of a trial team in a bench trial in federal district court.
- Representing a pool supply manufacturer through dispositive motions and in a jury trial in federal district court, ultimately securing a win for his client on the trademark claims at issue based on a defense of fair use.
- Asserting his client’s trademark rights in its famous golf course hole to prevent the unauthorized use of photographs of that hole.
- Representing the artist behind certain famous skateboard designs in a copyright dispute, resulting in a favorable settlement.
- Representing a television station in an appeal regarding a contract dispute, resulting in affirmance of the damages award his client had won at trial.
- “Expert Analysis: Determining Assignor Estoppel After Hologic Patent Ruling,” Law360, 2022
- “Foreign Discovery,” Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook, BNA (4th ed.), 2015
- “Fair Use as Free Speech Fundamental: How Copyright Law Creates a Conflict Between International Intellectual Property and Human Rights Treaties,” 64 Hastings L.J. 1549, 2013
- “Assignor Estoppel: Exploring the Limits After Minerva v. Hologic,” Turner Boyd’s Seventh Annual California MCLE Program, 2023
- “AIA Patents in Litigation,” Turner Boyd’s Fifth Annual California MCLE Program, 2019
- “What’s Your Motivation? The Art of Combining References to Show Obviousness,” Turner Boyd’s Fourth Annual California MCLE Program, 2018
- “Federal Circuit Jurisdiction Under the America Invents Act,” Turner Boyd’s Third Annual California MCLE Program, 2017
- “Client Management: One Size Does Not Fit All,” Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, 2016
- Selected to the Super Lawyers Northern California list, 2025
- Selected to the Super Lawyers Northern California Rising Stars list, 2022, 2023 and 2024
Education
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, J.D., 2013, magna cum laude,
Order of the Coif
- University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1999, with honors,
Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- California
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

