As a former Surface Warfare Officer in the United States
Navy, John "Jay" Jurata is no stranger to keeping his cool in face of
pivotal conflicts. This has served him
well in his career as an antitrust trial attorney that has spanned nearly two
decades. He has represented some of the
biggest names in the technology industry, including Microsoft, Sharp, LG, Panasonic
and Fujifilm.
A partner in Orrick's Washington, D.C., office, Jay is the
leader of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Group. His practice covers both
U.S. and international competition law, with an emphasis on antitrust and
intellectual property issues involving technology markets. He is a first chair trial lawyer with
extensive experience representing clients in government investigations relating
to monopolization and abuse of dominance, mergers and acquisitions, and
high-stakes litigation.
He currently co-leads Microsoft’s defense of an antitrust
class action overcharge litigation in Canada seeking more than four billion
dollars in damages (the first “abuse of dominance” case brought under Canadian
antitrust law) in addition to representing Microsoft on merger control,
antitrust investigations and private litigation arising from patent
enforcement. For example, he helped to
resolve the Korea Fair Trade Commission’s challenge to Microsoft Corporation’s
acquisition of the Nokia devices and services business, with no changes to
Microsoft’s pre-acquisition patent licensing practices.
Other recent successes include representing Sharp Corporation in a standards-essential patent licensing
arbitration against InterDigital Corporation that sought $390 million in
damages, a dismissal of a suit regarding a standards-essential patent dispute
against iBiquity and later that year a trial victory for the client on the same
issue.
Jay is a recognized authority in the field of antitrust and
its overlap with intellectual property, and he speaks and publishes regularly
on topics such as standards-essential patents, FRAND, and patent trolls.