Jake Edwards

Summary: Jake Edwards (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Atlanta)

Specialty / focus areas. Publicly available firm materials describe Jake ("Jacob") Edwards primarily as a commercial litigator — his Kilpatrick Townsend bio centers on construction litigation, contract disputes, and alternative dispute resolution, not patent litigation. His only verifiable patent-related involvement is a support role on the firm's team in Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies (U.S. Supreme Court, No. 18-916), where Kilpatrick Townsend's own client-success materials list him among the attorneys working on Supreme Court briefing and oral-argument preparation. No technology-area specialization (Wi-Fi, pharma, software, mechanical) is documented for him; the tracked docket data shows a single untitled plaintiff-side appearance, which cannot be independently identified or characterized.

Side preference. The tracked appearances show one plaintiff-side matter and zero defendant-side matters, but that single record is too thin to establish a pattern, and the firm's own disclosure of his patent work (Thryv, an IPR-time-bar case for operating company Thryv) is defendant-side. On the available evidence, he is better characterized as a general commercial litigator who has contributed to patent appellate work within Kilpatrick Townsend rather than as an attorney with a defined plaintiff- or defendant-side patent practice. This should be flagged as uncertain given the conflicting signals.

Firm context. He joined Kilpatrick Townsend's Atlanta office as an associate in September 2019. Before that he was a law clerk to Judge Adalberto Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2019–2022 per one directory source; the firm bio confirms the clerkship) and an associate handling complex commercial litigation at Dentons in Atlanta. His training is in appellate and commercial litigation, and his docketed patent appearances appear incidental to his primary practice.

Notable cases / outcomes. The most prominent matter is Thryv v. Click-To-Call, in which the Supreme Court held 7–2 that PTAB IPR institution-timeliness decisions are final and nonappealable under 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) — a Law360 "ten biggest patent cases of 2020" selection. The firm credits a large multidisciplinary team, including Edwards, for the win, though lead roles were handled by Adam Charnes (argument) and Mitch Stockwell (PTAB/Federal Circuit). No verdicts, settlements, or Federal Circuit outcomes attributable to Edwards personally were found.

PTAB / IPR experience. No evidence that he appears regularly in IPR/PGR proceedings; his connection to PTAB law runs through the Thryv appellate team. Flag this as not established.

Bar / education. Admitted in Georgia (2017); J.D., University of Georgia School of Law (2017, cum laude); B.A., University of Georgia (2014) — per the firm's official bio.

Caveat: Multiple attorneys share similar names; all statements above rely on the Kilpatrick Townsend bio, firm press releases, and the firm's Thryv client-success publication, and are limited by the untitled, unverifiable nature of the single tracked docket entry.