Sharif Jacob

Sharif Jacob is an accomplished patent litigation attorney with a practice focused on complex intellectual property disputes, particularly within high-stakes technology sectors. His expertise spans patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation, often involving cutting-edge technologies in areas such as video streaming, social networking, the app economy, and emerging artificial intelligence applications. Jacob primarily defends major operating companies, including prominent clients like Netflix, Meta, Instacart, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, but also represents clients in asserting patent and trademark claims, demonstrating a versatile approach to both plaintiff and defendant-side work.

Currently a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, where he has practiced since 2008, Jacob has built a significant track record in challenging intellectual property cases. While the provided data indicates one tracked appearance as lead counsel for a defendant at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, his extensive and well-documented patent litigation career is with Keker, Van Nest & Peters. A notable success includes his defense of Netflix against Broadcom, where he secured summary judgment invalidating a patent that Broadcom claimed entitled it to over a billion dollars in damages, leading to the dismissal of the remaining patents. His ongoing work includes defending Meta in a five-patent case concerning AI voice recognition technology, representing Hewlett Packard Enterprise against Memray MT LLC, and defending Perplexity AI in a data scraping dispute. He also represents MongoDB in asserting patent and trademark dilution claims.

Jacob's practice extends beyond U.S. district courts, encompassing disputes before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent and Trademark Office, indicating experience with post-grant proceedings like IPRs.