Jay Kesan, Ph.D., J.D
Member
Practice Areas
- Patent Litigation
- Intellectual Property Strategy/Counseling
- Patent Prosecution
- Trade Secrets
- Trademarks
- Copyrights
Bar and Court Admissions
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- Commonwealth of Virginia
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth and Federal Circuits
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Awards & Honors
Please see https://jaykesan.com for a list of awards and honors.
Education
- J.D., summa cum laude, Georgetown University
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
- Judicial Clerk for Circuit Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham, U.S. Court of Appeals in the Fifth Circuit
- Senior Commentator, Edison Fellowship Program, Center for Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP), GeorgeMason University, Arlington, VA, 2014-16, 2016-2019
- Microsoft Faculty Research Award, 2015 ($40,000), 2016 ($60,000), 2017 ($60,000)
- Named by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine in their list of “Top 12 IP Personalities of 2012” (only two academics in this list), 2013
- Thomas A. Edison Scholar, United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), 2012-2013
- Honorable Mention Award ($1,000), Research Competition on Cyberdeterrence conducted by the National Research Council (NRC) for work on “Thinking Through Active Defense in Cyberspace,” 2011
- Best Paper Award for Contributions to Foundations of Electronic Governance at the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV), Beijing, China, Oct. 25-28, 2010
- Microsoft Faculty Research Award for work on technology standards, 2010 ($40,000)
- Best Paper Award, for paper on an Empirical Examination of Open Standards Development (with R. Shah), 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Jan. 9, 2008, Manoa, Hawaii
- Best Paper Award, for paper on an Empirical Study of Open Standards (with R. Shah) published in the
- Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, May 21-23, 2007, Philadelphia, PA
- 2006 IBM Faculty Award (unrestricted award–$25,000)
- Appointed Special Master by federal judges in patent litigation cases
- Invited Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, Center for Advanced Study and Research in Intellectual Property (CASRIP), Summer 2000; Invited Instructor, July 2001-July 2004
- Invited Foreign Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP), Tokyo, Japan, Nov.-Dec. 2003
- METI/JSPS Invited Fellow and Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2000 – Jan. 2001
- Resident Associate, Center for Advanced Study (CAS), University of Illinois, 2000-2001
- Recipient of the 1995-96 H. Thomas Austern National Legal Writing Competition Award ($1,000)
- Holder of 10 U.S. patents and several other patents world-wide
- Recipient of 2 IBM Invention Achievement Awards, 1990-1992
- Invited Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B (published by the American Vacuum Society), Mar./Apr. 1992
- Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) Award for Graduate Research Excellence, 1989
- Recipient of a Joint Services Electronics Program Assistantship for graduate study, 1985-1989
- Best Student Paper Award at the 1988 Electronic Materials Conference, Boulder, CO
Jay P. Kesan, Ph.D., is a well-recognized and accomplished patent attorney with over 25 years’ experience. His work encompasses all aspects of patent enforcement, patent strategy and licensing. He has been lead counsel or co-counsel in numerous patent lawsuits in various federal district courts around the country. He has argued numerous appeals before the Court of Appeals in the Federal Circuit, and he has also served as lead counsel in over 30+ inter partes reviews (IPRs) and argued several times before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He has been actively involved in every aspect of patent litigation – as counsel, Special Master, appellate counsel, technical expert, legal expert, and mediator.
Jay enjoys representing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-up companies, helping them achieve their business goals and objectives, and collaborating with their teams to help them succeed.
He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and worked for several years as a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. As a result, he works with his clients on IP disputes that involve a wide variety of technologies and innovations.
He is an inventor on 20+ U.S. patents. His scientific and technological publications and patents focus on rf circuitry, wireless communication technology, semiconductor device design, integrated circuit design and fabrication, and RFID technologies.
He has served as a technical expert in patent litigations in the areas of wireless technology and systems, semiconductors, microelectronics, communication systems, electronic commerce applications, smartphone technologies, and software. He has also served as an expert in patent professional malpractice cases.
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Publications and Presentations
Jay Kesan has published extensively on patent law and patent policy matters. For a list of publications, please see,https://jaykesan.com/publications/and on SSRN at:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=261086.
He is listed (#9) in the Top 20 Most Cited Intellectual Property Law Faculty in the United States, https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/10/20-most-cited-intellectual-property-scholars-in-the-us-2016-2020.html.
