In the intellectual property arena, Mr. Blackstone has been involved with patent assertion and portfolio evaluation from the inception of patent mining efforts, to evaluation of patents against products and standards, to creation of negotiation and presentation materials, and finally to litigation of asserted, non-licensed patents. He has expertise in multiple technology areas, including but not limited to wireless technologies, medical devices and technology, telecommunications, computer hardware, oil and gas, computer and device software, and computer networking. He has extensive experience performing legal analysis on the scope and content of patent claims and related art. He has coordinated settlement efforts, including monetization strategies, portfolio evaluations and cross-licensing efforts. He also has experience with copyright material review and registration, and all aspects of trademark registration and litigation.

Mr. Blackstone is well versed in providing counsel to clients as an "external-internal counsel" in the areas of intellectual property and commercial issues.  Prior to founding Yarbrough Blackstone, he was a partner at the well-regarded firms of McKool Smith and Munck Wilson Mandala.  

Mr. Blackstone has been one of the leading advocates for treating data as an emerging asset class and species of intellectual property.  This interdisciplinary approach has including consultations regarding intellectual property, contracts, bankruptcy, and regulatory compliance.  Jason has been invited to present at a variety of startup and technology-themed events including J.P. Morgan Health Care Week, Dallas Startup Week, The Dallas Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and at numerous Private Equity and Family Office Events.

Mr. Blackstone is active in the startup space, providing detailed and decisive legal advice, as well as business savvy counsel.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES & EXPERIENCE:

• Counseled technology firms in pre-suit investigations and demand letter evaluations regarding intellectual property options and contractual and statutory remedies and relief as well as licensing strategies and licensing program and patent prosecution strategies and filings.

• Reviewed data policy and procedures for startup Artificial Intelligence company with regard to compliance and regulatory issues.

• Represented medical device company and obtained dismissal of suit in district court due to favorable claim construction ruling.

• Represented company in intellectual property licensing and joint research agreement with large Texas University.

• Managed data breach response for leading hospitality corporation and reviewed technical results of consulting response teams.

• Managed intellectual property strategy and filing for startup apparel manufacturer.

• Represent plaintiff medical supply company against competitor for patent infringement and obtained favorable licensing result.

• Represented transportation startup company and review and advise regarding data privacy and retention policy.

• Represented software development company in suit against multiple cellular technology manufacturers.

• Represented University in intellectual property and joint research agreement with another foreign university.

• Represented startup home technology corporation regarding trade secret and intellectual property policy and agreements with suppliers and contractors.

• Represented software technology developer in copyright and trade secret dispute with competitor software technology developer.

• Represented Oil and Gas upstream technology provider in patent assertion campaign against Oil and Gas upstream technology competitor.

• Represent technology licensing firm in software licensing campaign against a variety of targets in front of both the USPTO and the Federal Circuit.

• Represent Oil and Gas technology development corporation in developing licensing platform for oil and gas fracking patent portfolio.

• Represented leading network and wireless technical provider defendant in a patent infringement suit involving wireless patents asserted against Wi-Fi industry standards, which included filing of inter partes requests for reexamination with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, resulting in a licensing agreement.

• Represented plaintiff technology company in patent infringement actions for multiple patents involving computer graphics and operating system software and video game software with the expert investigation, analysis, and review of over 15,000 video games and related graphics hardware in personal computers and video game consoles and resulting in multiple licensing agreements.

• Represented leading cellular corporations, as both plaintiff and defendant, in global patent litigation in multiple domestic and foreign court actions and two International Trade Commission investigations involving over 60 digital cellular and wireless patents as well as various mobile phone technology patents resulting in a cross-licensing agreement.

• Conducted review of patent portfolios of clients for possible assertion against industry standards and against particular defendants, including disassembly and examination or reverse engineering of infringing products.

• Represented wireless networking company in multiple domestic court actions against laptop manufacturers and semiconductor companies involving patents asserted against Wi-Fi industry standards and resulting in multiple licensing agreements.

• Represented wireless networking company against router and DSL manufacturers and semiconductor companies involving patents asserted against Wi-Fi and DSL industry standards and resulting in multiple licensing agreements.

• Represented technology company against cellular manufacturers and semiconductor companies involving patents asserted against cellular, broadband, and Wi-Fi industry standards resulting in multiple licensing agreements.

• Represented leading cellular corporation in global patent litigation in both multiple domestic and foreign court actions and simultaneous International Trade Commission investigations involving over 30 digital cellular and wireless patents resulting in a cross-licensing agreement.

• Represented leading wireless networking company in domestic court action against cellular manufacturers involving patents asserted against cellular, WiMAX and Wi-Fi industry standards resulting in multiple licensing agreements.

• Represented telecom corporation in review of asserted patents against corporation by strategic competitor involving patents asserted against telecommunications equipment located in telecom switching office

• Represented oil and gas company in commercial litigation action and supervised technical expert reports regarding operation, drilling supervision, and safety processes on deep sea drilling platforms

• Represented medical supply firm in domestic court action against peer competitor involving patent asserted against medical supply technology, which included covered business method patent review in front of United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Represented web video advertising company in multiple domestic court actions against video marketplace corporations involving video marketplace patents

• Represented image encoding firm in domestic court action against children’s reading device manufacturer and retail defendants involving patent on encoding messages within images.