Brown Rudnick LLP

Intellectual Property Litigation

Partner

Jason Sobel is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation, Trademark, Copyright & Advertising, and Technology Practice Groups. His practice spans a wide range of areas of intellectual property law, including litigation, transactions, prosecution, and other strategic matters. Jason provides intellectual property and litigation counsel to clients in numerous industries and technological disciplines, including software and internet companies; manufacturing of mechanical and electrical devices and materials; financial services; chemicals; food products and ingredients; medical devices; life sciences; semi-conductors; and consumer products.

Jason has litigated cases through trial and appeal in federal and state courts, and before the International Trade Commission. He has represented clients in claims of patent, trademark, trade dress and copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, unfair competition, breach of restrictive covenant agreements, and fraud, as well as a variety of other technology disputes, torts, and commercial matters.

Jason has deep experience in contentious trade secret disputes, representing multiple clients in bet-the-business trade secret litigations and obtaining successful outcomes and allowing clients to maintain and increase their market positions.

Jason regularly counsels clients in developing and maintaining their trademark portfolios, preparing strong assets to maximize corporate value. He obtained one of the largest sustained trademark infringement verdicts in history in a bet-the-brand litigation.

Jason litigates patent matters for, and against, market leaders in a variety of industry sectors, obtaining sustained verdicts of patent infringement, and full defense dismissals. Jason is also a registered patent attorney and draws on his litigation experience to provide insightful strategy in caring for clients’ existing and developing patent portfolios.

Jason’s experience in intellectual property and technology sectors positions him as a trusted advisor to companies at all stages of the corporate life cycle, seeing companies through developing and protecting their intellectual property portfolios, defending against high-stakes lawsuits, and successful mergers. He has structured, prepared, and negotiated intellectual property, technology, service, and supply agreements in connection with stand-alone and large corporate transactions. Jason has performed intellectual property and information technology due diligence and provided related advice in the context of corporate transactions and internal company audits of intellectual property. Additionally, he has experience implementing employee intellectual property ownership and information systems, policies, and advising clients on a host of legal issues touching on computer software and technology.

Jason’s pro bono work includes counseling community based microentrepreneurs in a legal clinical setting. He also regularly guest lectures on intellectual property for startup and entrepreneur law classes at Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School.