Jason Sobel

Practice Areas

Jason Sobel is a partner in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation 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 a wide range of industries and technological disciplines, including financial service companies, software and internet companies, and manufacturers of mechanical and electrical devices, food products and ingredients, 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, copyright and trademark 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 also structures, prepares, and negotiates intellectual property, technology, service, and supply agreements in connection with stand-alone and large corporate transactions. He has extensive experience performing intellectual property and information technology due diligence, and providing related advice in corporate transactions and internal company audits of intellectual property.

Jason counsels clients concerning their intellectual property portfolios, and prepares and prosecutes patent, trademark, and copyright applications. Additionally, he has experience developing, drafting, and implementing employee intellectual property ownership and information systems policies, and advising clients concerning data privacy, open source software, computer fraud, source code, and other issues related to outsourcing, computer software, and information technology.

Jason is recognized by Chambers USA in the New York Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets category. In the latest Chambers guide, clients have made the following comments: “Jason is a clear thinker who is able to grasp complex issues and resolve the challenges at hand. He is extremely intelligent, and an outstanding communicator.” “He is knowledgeable, personable and effective; Jason always delivers great results for clients.” “Jason is smart as smart gets. He is easy to work with, provides fantastic advice and counsel, and he is understanding of the commercial end game.”