Jayson is a highly effective litigator, trial lawyer, and advocate, representing his clients in technology and commercial disputes and other contentious matters before courts, arbitrators, and government agencies.
Jayson’s “roll up your sleeves” approach to litigation and legal service is strategic and client-focused, based on gaining a deep understanding of his clients’ businesses, technologies, and goals. He knows how to strategize about the end game and its best outcome — whether trial verdict, order, rule change, or settlement — from Day One. And his electrical engineering degree and Ph.D. in Applied Physics have allowed him to excel in his technology-focused law practice.
Before joining BLG, Jayson represented clients in their most important IP litigation matters while at Paul, Weiss and then Morrison & Foerster, where he tried cases before juries, judges, and arbitrators. He was recruited from MoFo in 2022 to become a Satellite Policy Director at SpaceX. There, he helped secure major wins for SpaceX through Federal Communications Commission applications and rulemaking proceedings. He also headed Starlink’s spectrum coordination function globally, serving as SpaceX’s lead negotiator on spectrum use with terrestrial and satellite communications operators.
Jayson has led teams of lawyers at all stages of civil litigation and arbitration — from pre-filing investigation to trial. His matters have addressed patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, IP licensing, technology development, and commercial contracts as well as satellite spectrum rights and space and earth station licensing. He has appeared before numerous U.S. District and Circuit Courts, the New York Supreme Court, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board, and the Federal Communication Commission and other U.S. and global regulatory agencies, as well as in ICC and JAMS arbitration. In settling litigations, Jayson has drafted not only settlement agreements but also license, supply, distribution, and other commercial agreements that have allowed settling parties to move past their disputes and continue their business together.
Jayson is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has an extensive understanding of the patent prosecution process, as well as post-grant and inter partes reviews at the USPTO, and their relationship to litigation strategy.
Beyond his litigation and regulatory work, Jayson has served as IP counsel for transactional matters whose aims were licensing, product development, acquisitions, or securities offerings. He has evaluated patent portfolios for potential acquisition, freedom-to-operate, and assertion against competitors. Jayson has also advised corporate clients and hedge funds interested in understanding IP law and pending IP litigations. And he has counseled clients on patent prosecution and licensing programs, IP protection, joint development and IP ownership agreements, IP rights in supply agreements, and marketing claims involving IP. For four months in 2017, Jayson was seconded to the consumer health business of a global pharmaceutical company as in-house IP product counsel.
Jayson’s matters have spanned a wide variety of technologies, such as: