Jason D. Eisenberg is a director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group and Chair for the firm’s Reexamination, Supplemental Examination, and Reissue Practice. Jason previously spent half a decade as Chair of the Electronics Practice Group and prior to that as Chair of the Docketing Committee.
Jason balances global preparation and prosecution, client counseling, and opinions with a Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Central Reexamination Unit, and Federal Circuit cases. Over the course of his career, Jason has been involved in 100 complex reissues and as a litigation expert, 150 reexaminations, 300 inter partes and post-grant reviews, 20 Federal Circuit cases, several Supreme Court appeals (cert petitions and amici briefs), 130 opinions, due diligence, enforcement, and defense from nearly 30 years of patent experience.
Jason is currently editor and co-author of the firm’s monthly “Reexamination, Reissue, and Supplemental Examination Strategies and Insights” newsletter and was previously editor and co-author of the “PTAB Strategies and Insights” monthly newsletter. Jason and Robert Greene Sterne were co-editors and authors of several chapters of the Second Edition of Patent Office Litigation (Thomson Reuters, 2017).
Jason has also taught as an adjunct professor for Patent Writing Theory & Practice at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Fall 2022 and Patent Office Litigation at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Fall 2021 and George Mason University in Fall 2019 and 2020.
Jason’s technical experience includes work across all electrical and mechanical technologies, including analog and digital electronics, complex optics and optical theory, software and hardware, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, natural language processing, bioinformatics, data signal processing, telecommunications, semiconductors and memory, lithography, and many more. Jason has also worked on battery chemistry and structure, glass chemistry and manufacture, and other non-electrical and mechanical technologies.
Prior to law school, Jason gained experience as a public searcher and a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent examiner. During law school, he worked as a patent agent in several Cleveland, Columbus, and D.C. law firms as well as an externship at the Ohio Supreme Court for Justice Cook.
Jason spent over four years as a USPTO patent examiner in previous-Group 2500/current Group 2800 examining cases in Optical Measuring and Testing, Optical Elements, Optical and Magnetic Information Storage and Retrieval, and Antennas. In addition to his core examination duties, Jason analyzed, classified, and assigned all cases for his art unit and was also a voluntary Equal Opportunity Employment (EEO) counselor at the USPTO, where he performed fact investigations for EEO complaints filed by USPTO employees.
In addition to the experience above, Jason spent several years as a patent/public searcher for a law firm and spent a summer as a USPTO patent clerk for a group director and a supervisory patent examiner in previous-Group 2500.
Jason earned a J.D. at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, a B.S. in Accounting at University of Maryland University College, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University.
Jason has been substantially involved in nearly 250 AIA proceedings (IPR, CBM, and PGR): 200 patent owner cases and more than 50 petitioner cases at the PTAB. The following is a list of some of his appellate cases as of November 2025:
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-1994: Rovi Guides v. Iancu (Intervenor)
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-2111: Rovi Guides v. Iancu (Intervenor)
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-2202: Rovi Guides v. Iancu (Intervenor)
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-2206: Rovi Guides v. Iancu (Intervenor)
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-2214, -2215, -2216, -2217: Veveo v. Iancu (Intervenor)
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 20-2288: Rovi Guides v. Iancu (Intervenor)
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 19-2438; 19-2439: Vivint, Inc. v. Alarm.com Inc.
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 19-1215, 1216, 1218: Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 19-1293, 1294, 1295: Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 19-1309: Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 18-2422: Veveo, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 19-1129, 1131: Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 19-1188: Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 13-1549: K/S HIMPP v. Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 14-1357: Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC v. K/S HIMPP
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 14-1369: Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC v. K/S HIMPP
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 16-2394; 16-2395; 17-1105; 17-1106; 17-1107; 17-1108: Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et. al.
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 17-1726: Tinnus Enterprises, LLC v. Telebrands Corporation
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 17-2076: Vivint, Inc. v. Alarm.com Inc.
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 17-2112: Vivint, Inc. v. Alarm.com Inc.
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 17-2218; 17-2219; 17-2220: Vivint, Inc. v. Alarm.com Inc.
- U.S. Supreme Court Case. No. 14-744, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari for K/S HIMPP v. HearWear Technologies, Denied Feb. 23, 2015.
- U.S. Supreme Court Case. No. 18-314, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari for Capella Photonics v. Cisco Systems, Denied Nov. 5, 2018.
- U.S. Supreme Court Cases No. 20-74, 20-273, 20-414, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari for US v. Rovi Guides; Rovi Guides v. Comcast Cable Communications; Comcast Cable Communications v. Rovi Guides.
- U.S. Supreme Court Cases (Combined). No. 19-1434, 1452, 1458, Amicus for Petition and Merits stages for TiVo in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew cases.
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 25-1207: Zilkr Cloud Technologies, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Federal Circuit Appeal No. 23-1001: Core Optical Technologies, LLC v. Nokia Corporation.
- JD Supra, “Reader’s Choice Award” (2020, 2025 – 2026)
- Patexia, “100 Best Performing Attorneys Representing Patent Owners – PTAB (Ranked #4)” (2023)
- Patexia, “100 Best Performing Attorneys Overall – PTAB (Top 50)” (2023)
- Patexia, “100 Most Active Attorneys Representing Patent Owners – PTAB (Top 50)” (2023)
- Patexia, “100 Most Active Attorneys Overall – PTAB” (2023)
- Patexia, “100 Most Active Attorneys Representing Patent Owners – Inter Partes Review (Top 50)” (2022)
- Patexia, “100 Best Performing Attorneys Representing Patent Owners – Inter Partes Review (Top 50)” (2022)
- Patexia, “100 Most Active CAFC Attorneys Representing Patent Appellants (Top 10)” (2022)
- Patexia, “100 Most Active CAFC Attorneys Overall (Representing Appellants and Appellees) (Top 50)” (2022)
- Patexia, “100 Best Performing CAFC Attorneys Representing Appellants (Top 50)” (2022)
- Patexia, “100 Best Performing CAFC Attorneys Overall (Representing Appellants or Appellees) (Top 50)” (2022)
- J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- B.S., Accounting, University of Maryland University College
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University
- District of Columbia
- Ohio
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Patent & Trademark Office
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