Jessica N. Clemente

Jessica helps clients resolve complex intellectual property disputes with a pragmatic and decisive value-added approach. Highly regarded for her creative problem solving, Jessica has represented inventors, manufacturers, and technology companies on a wide range of claims relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets matters in state and federal courts throughout the United States.

In addition to her intellectual property litigation work, Jessica represents companies and individuals in state and federal commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels, including matters relating to non-disclosure agreements, unfair competition, and other business torts.

Within HSE, Jessica is a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee and a representative on the firm’s Associates’ Committee. Jessica also serves as the firm’s Liaison to the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance.

PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

• Co-Chair, Campaign for Justice
• Co-Chair, Women’s Connection Committee, GRAWA
• Member, Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA)
• Committee to Establish and Member, Commission to Advance and Support Women in the Law, Monroe County Bar Association
• Member, Monroe County Bar Association
• Former Chair, Young Lawyers Section, Monroe County Bar Association
• Founding Member and Executive Team Member of the Associate Board, The Center for Youth Services
• Attorney Volunteer, Rochester Teen Court

HONORS & AWARDS

• Recipient, “Forty Under 40” Award, Rochester Business Journal, 2022
• Finalist, ATHENA International Young Professional Award, 2021
• Selected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ for Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Intellectual Property (2021-2023), Intellectual Property Law (2023)
• Selected to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, 2016-2022
• Recipient, “Up and Coming Attorneys” Award, The Daily Record, June 2017
• Recipient, Honorable Judith S. Kaye Commercial and Federal Litigation Scholarship, 2016
• Albany Law School
  • Executive Editor, New York Appeals, Albany Law Review
  • Founders Scholarship and David D. Siegel Scholarship

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Represented a global provider of resilient positioning, navigation, and timing solutions in a case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark infringement, and other business torts in the Northern District of Texas. Successfully defended against a preliminary injunction and ultimately resolved the case through a favorable settlement.
• Represented an apparel and fashion distribution company in a case involving copyright infringement, violation of right of publicity, and other business torts. Negotiated a favorable settlement.
• Served on the trial team for a telecommunications technology company plaintiff in a case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of a non-disclosure agreement, fraud, and joint inventorship of a patent. Case settled after completion of the first week of jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas.
• Represented an inventor in a case alleging infringement of a design patent, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of a non-disclosure agreement, and other business torts. Negotiated a favorable settlement.

NEWS

Press Releases

• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to 2021 Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars Lists, August 20, 2021
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Recognized in 2022 Best Lawyers in America© and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, August 19, 2021
• Jessica N. Clemente Named 2021 ATHENA International Young Professional Award Finalist, March 16, 2021
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to 2020 Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars Lists, August 25, 2020
• Harter Secrest & Emery Appoints Three Senior Associates, January 8, 2020
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Elected as Officers of MCBA Young Lawyers Section, September 12, 2019
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to 2019 Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars Lists, August 14, 2019

PRESENTATIONS

• Panelist, “Balancing the Scale of Life and Work: A Candid Discussion on Mental Health and Practice in the Legal Community,” Monroe County Bar Association, March 31, 2022
• Presenter, “Select Issues in Modern Contract Law,” Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, March 2020
• Presenter, “Nuts & Bolts of Personal Jurisdiction in Civil Practice,” Monroe County Bar Association, May 15, 2018
• Presenter, “Nuts and Bolts Civil Practice: From Note of Issue to Trial Date,” Monroe County Bar Association, December 2016