Jason Kipnis is a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley Office, where he manages the office’s Intellectual Property Counseling practice. He advises clients regarding a wide variety of intellectual property matters, including IP portfolio management, IP litigation, IP enforcement and dispute counseling, IP transactions, and IP audits and due diligence. Other areas of expertise include trade secret protection and management, standards counseling, open source matters, international IP rights management, and identification and acquisition of IP of third parties. He was recently recognized by IAM Patent 1000 2013 for licensing and patent litigation in California.
Mr. Kipnis has advised clients at various stages of development, and in a wide range of technologies, including computer architecture and system design, software, semiconductor design and fabrication, optics, networking and telecommunications, biotechnology, and medical devices. Representative clients include Apple, Applied Materials, Broadcom, Cisco, JVC, Marvell, Nuance, Panasonic, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc., and Yahoo!.
Mr. Kipnis is also an adjunct lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches IP Strategy for High Technology Companies, and is a frequent speaker on intellectual property matters at professional and academic conferences. In addition, he has been selected by the IAM250 as one of the world’s leading IP strategists. He also serves on the board of directors, and is Treasurer, of the Bay Area Video Coalition.
Mr. Kipnis received a JD from Stanford Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Stanford Law Review and was president of the Stanford Law and Technology Association. He also received MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his studies and research focused on parallel computer architectures and high speed cache design. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Kipnis worked as a consultant for Oracle Corporation, where he designed and implemented database applications.
Bar Admissions and Memberships
- Member, California State Bar.
- Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.