Jake’s intellectual property practice focuses on patent, trademark, and copyright law. He has experience assisting a diverse client base, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual inventors, with prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications, preparing clearance, patentability, and invalidity opinions, prosecuting trademark registrations, and providing copyright strategy and counseling to clients. Jake’s areas of expertise include mechanical and electromechanical arts such as automotive drivetrains, fluid systems, software control algorithms, and electric motor controls.
Before joining Harter Secrest & Emery, Jake provided valuable guidance supervising the IP portfolio of a division of a global automotive supplier, including regularly working with inventors in the United States, Belgium and Italy on new technology.
Jake’s intellectual property practice focuses on patent, trademark, and copyright law. He has experience assisting a diverse client base, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual inventors, with prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications, preparing clearance, patentability, and invalidity opinions, prosecuting trademark registrations, and providing copyright strategy and counseling to clients. Jake’s areas of expertise include mechanical and electromechanical arts such as automotive drivetrains, fluid systems, software control algorithms, and electric motor controls.
Before joining Harter Secrest & Emery, Jake provided valuable guidance supervising the IP portfolio of a division of a global automotive supplier, including regularly working with inventors in the United States, Belgium and Italy on new technology.