Awards & Rankings 06.06.24
Pillsbury’s Intellectual Property Practice Secures High Rankings in IAM Patent 1000 Directory
Source: Intellectual Asset Management
Partner, Silicon Valley & San Francisco
David Jakopin, the head of Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley Intellectual Property group, is a strategic thinker who brings a broad knowledge base and creativity to provide practical advice and concrete implementations on difficult issues.
David advises clients on significant disputes, from pre-litigation through appeal. He has a strong technical background in electronics, semiconductors and communications, along with a depth of understanding in civil procedure, trial strategy, licensing, negotiations and general IP-focused corporate representation. This diverse background, along with his hands-on approach, proves highly valuable when advising clients on significant disputes, offering implementable case-specific solutions.
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This background helps him assess a broad array of case-specific facts and associated law, and then form a plan of execution. Some examples include a case-dispositive claim construction, an inoperable suggestion of how the prior art operates, or a strategy that combined invalidity, damages and the lapse of time as evidenced by his work for SiTime (patent asserted against MEMS resonators found invalid at Markman hearing and affirmed by CAFC), Rigetti (maintained validity of foundational quantum computing patent in two USPTO IPRs brought by IBM) and Inphi (patents asserted against buffer memory controller invalidated and/or amended during inter partes reexaminations, and affirmed at CAFC; case dismissed by patent owner).
A partner since 1996, he is located in the Silicon Valley office and serves as the head of the Silicon Valley IP Group.
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Honors & Awards
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Associations
Education
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1987
with honors
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1984
Admissions
California
Illinois
District of Columbia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Courts
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit