Jason S. Jackson

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Jason S. Jackson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Jason S. Jackson is a partner at Kutak Rock LLP, where he founded and heads the firm's Post-Grant Proceedings Group. He is a registered patent attorney whose practice combines district court patent litigation, PTAB post-grant work, licensing, and prosecution/counseling. His technical background is in computer science (B.S., Georgia State University, 2001), and the case list and firm materials reflect a concentration in network and computer technologies — firewalls and content-based packet filtering, intrusion detection, encryption and public-key certificate management, network protocols and adapter technology, database and e-commerce/internet advertising technology — alongside mechanical and consumer-product subject matter (firearms and accessories, flooring and polymer technology, athletic equipment, recreational vehicles, nutritional supplements). Several of the tracked matters arise out of the financial-services sector, where he has litigated banking-technology patents on behalf of regional banks.

On side, the tracked appearances are mixed rather than single-sided: five defendant-side and three plaintiff-side roles. In practice this reflects two distinct postures. Defensively, he has represented operating banks (Compass Bank, Commerce Bancshares, First National Bank of Omaha) against non-practicing-entity assertions by Intellectual Ventures II. Offensively and on the patent-owner side, he represented those same banks as petitioners in IPRs, and his bio notes that before joining Kutak Rock he "exclusively worked to enforce patent rights through licensing and litigation" — consistent with the patent-owner representation he has continued at Kutak Rock (e.g., Arctic Cat, Zircore, Smart Communications, and 4361423 Canada in PTAB proceedings). He is not a one-sided NPE-defense or NPE-enforcement specialist; he works both.

The most prominent tracked matters are the Intellectual Ventures II campaign against the banks. In Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. and the related Compass Bank and First National Bank of Omaha actions (D. Neb., W.D. Mo., N.D. Ala.), the banks challenged IV's firewall patent in IPR; the PTAB invalidated it and the Federal Circuit affirmed in March 2017 (Nos. 2016-1519, -1520, -1528). Kutak Rock's account credits Jackson as lead counsel for the banks and as the attorney who argued the Federal Circuit appeal. Press materials from Jones Day also claim a lead role in the related Compass Bank IPRs (IPR2014-00724, -00786, -00801), so the division of labor among the several firms on that campaign is not fully clear from public sources. In the Smart Communications matter, Jackson and Sara Gillette defeated both Global Tel*Link IPR petitions against the '617 patent, including a discretionary Fintiv denial. He also represents Mission First Tactical in Magpul Industries Corp. v. Mission First Tactical (E.D. Pa. 2024–25), where the court sanctioned opposing counsel over a claim construction chart that AI tools had largely fabricated.

PTAB work is a core part of his practice, not an occasional adjunct: he is counsel of record in numerous IPR proceedings across a range of technologies, has served as both lead and back-up counsel for patent owners, and has argued at the Federal Circuit. Bar admissions: Georgia (2004), Nebraska (2012), Colorado (2022), plus the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Circuit, and multiple district courts (including E.D. Tex., W.D. Tex., D. Colo., D. Neb., and N.D. Ga.); J.D., Emory University School of Law (2004).