Jason M. Sobel is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Intellectual Property Practice Group and Chair of its Trademark, Trade Secrets, and Copyright Practice. His practice spans a wide range of areas of intellectual property law, including litigation, transactions, prosecution, and other strategic matters. Mr. Sobel 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.
Mr. Sobel 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.
Mr. Sobel 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.
Mr. Sobel 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.
Mr. Sobel litigates patent matters for, and against, market leaders in a variety of industry sectors, obtaining sustained verdicts of patent infringement, and full defense dismissals. He 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.
Mr. Sobel’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. Mr. Sobel 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.
Mr. Sobel’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 Miami Law School.
Prior to joining Sills Cummis & Gross, Mr. Sobel was a partner in the New York office of two Am Law 200 law firms.