Micah R. Jacobs
Micah Jacobs
San Francisco
California (CA)
Intellectual Property Litigation
Business Litigation
Securities Litigation
Profile
Micah Jacobs specializes in litigating complex business and intellectual property disputes. He has over 17 years of experience representing private and public companies, inventors, artists and entrepreneurs in many sectors and industries, including technology and internet-related companies. He has worked at some of the country’s leading law firms, including Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Cooley Godward Kronish and Bingham McCutchen, before founding Jacobs Law Group SF. An accomplished and aggressive trial lawyer, Micah has won many unanimous jury verdicts and helped clients resolve their important legal problems in a creative and cost effective manner. In 2009, Micah was recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the 75 Leading IP Litigators in California in its annual survey of the top lawyers in California, and he has been recognized as a Super Lawyer in 2011, 2010, 2005 and 2006. His expertise includes international and cross-border litigation and resolving complex business disputes, including complex contract disputes, partnership disputes and mergers and acquisitions, patent, copyright and trademark infringement claims, trade secret disputes, unfair competition and false advertising claims.
Selected To
Northern California Super Lawyers 2011
Northern California Super Lawyers 2010
Northern California Super Lawyers 2006
Northern California Super Lawyers 2005
International Locations
Global Region(s): Asia, Europe
Countries: India, Thailand
About Micah Jacobs
Admitted: 1994, California
Professional Webpage: www.jacobslawsf.com
Honors and Awards:
- Selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2011, 2010, 2006, and 2005.
- Recognized as one of the "75 Leading IP Litigators in California" in the Daily Journal's annual survey of the top litigators in the state in 2009.
Bar/Professional Activity:
- State Bar of California, Member Intellectual Property
- Bar Association of San Francisco
Verdicts and Settlements:
- Panavision v. Toeppen, 141 F.3d 1316 (9th Cir. 1998)
Transactions:
- Recovered $4 million for a group of senior corporate managers of a publicly traded company whose stock options were deflated following disclosures of accounting fraud and artificial valuation of stock after their company was acquired.
- Obtained a $23 million settlement on behalf of the selling shareholders of a private technology company who sold their company to Homestore.com, Inc., a public company and the world’s leading online real estate business after discovering that Homestore.com had engaged in accounting fraud.
Representative Clients:
- Maximum Availability
- Astound Broadband
- Amgen
- eBay
- Panavision
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- Competitive Ironman triathlete
Educational Background:
- University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., Political Science, 1991
- University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1994
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