Michael Jaskolski

Proactive, focused and comprehensive intellectual property counsel

Mike Jaskolski has advised national and multinational companies on intellectual property (IP) matters for more than 30 years. He focuses on:

• Disruptive technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and developing client-customized strategies and systems to mitigate legal risks and exploit opportunities associated with these technologies
• Clearance, infringement and validity determinations and opinions

• Strategic patent prosecution
• Intellectual property (IP) enforcement and litigation
• Patent portfolio development and management

An avid student of disruptive technologies, particularly AI and robotics and how the rise of those technologies is transforming the future, Mike is intensely focused on how countries, governments, companies and other entities are responding and likely will respond to these disruptive technologies by changing IP laws and governance, as well as by developing new technology-based solutions that protect important rights while unleashing the power of these disruptive technologies to shape the future in innumerable ways.

Mike is a highly strategic thinker and tenacious advocate for his clients who has written and prosecuted hundreds of U.S. and foreign patents, written more than 1,000 validity and/or infringement opinions in his career, and developed and implemented detailed litigation strategies in many cases.

His strengths include understanding and protecting the "secret sauce" in his client's innovations using proven strategies that result in robust patent rights and developing bullet proof validity and right-to-use opinions. Mike quickly and accurately assesses patent infringement risks and defenses and, from the start, plots litigation strategies aligned with specific client goals. Doing so gives clients a strategic advantage: greater certainty in their enforcement and defensive efforts and, when litigation is necessary, a much shorter litigation lifecycle that saves time and money.

• Developing and implementing AI IP strategies and systems that mix patent, trade secret, copyright, privacy rights and data rights tools in client-customized solutions based on a deep understanding of current law, evolving legal changes, current technological solutions and evolving technological solutions.
• Minimizing legal risks and effectively capitalizes on opportunities associated with disruptive technologies, grounded in his extensive knowledge of existing technological solutions and IP tools, strategies and systems.
• Developing and managing the strategic direction of patent, trade secret and other litigation  matters, focusing on front-end deep dives to develop consummate understanding of a case.
• Developing every facet of infringement and validity opinions.

• Working with teams of litigators on all types of patent cases.
• Developing and managing post-grant Patent Office proceedings, including inter partes reviews  (IPR) and post grant reviews (PGR).
• Developing and implementing strategic patent portfolio management and commercialization plans.
• Advising on all aspects of cyber law, including privacy, copyright, trademark and domain, digital signatures, jurisdiction and business method matters.
• Counseling on licensable assets, identifying potential licensees and negotiating license terms.
• Conducting IP due diligence in the context of transactions, providing succinct summaries regarding prudence of various types of contemplated relationships and negotiating positions.