Managing Associate
Los Angeles
Jake is an intellectual property litigator who draws from his experience as an electrical engineer and federal judicial clerk to effectively represent his clients.
Jake litigates complex patent, copyright, trade secret, and trademark matters, encompassing cybersecurity, gaming, digital advertising technologies, analog and digital electronics, circuit design and fabrication, and renewable energy. He also possesses notable experience in copyright cases involving AI and data scraping.
He is deeply committed to pro bono work in indigent criminal defense and inmate advocacy. As an Orrick Fellow at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California, he secured compassionate release for a client serving a life sentence and played a crucial role as third-chair in a 10-day trial regarding alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
Jake graduated first in his class with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and worked at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, where he developed circuits for NASA-contracted space missions. He attended law school at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and graduated in the top 10% of his class. He recently completed a federal district court clerkship with the Honorable Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha in the Central District of California.
When Jake isn't advocating for his clients, he writes and records music under the artist name Drip Lines and spends time with his wife and children.