Jacob Minne, Esq.

About The Lecturer

Jacob Minne advises clients on a wide range of investment management and IP issues, including work with cryptoassets, fintech, and blockchain. Jacob’s copyright, patent, and trade secret litigation experience includes helping companies develop a comprehensive strategy for US litigation. He also works on software copyright matters that address various unfair competition and antitrust concerns.

Jacob has experience with blockchain technology, reviewed node hosting agreements for permissioned blockchains, and evaluated regulatory concerns related to money transmitter registration, custody requirements, and CFTC scrutiny of certain bitcoin transactions. He regularly presents at conferences such as LendIt and through Morgan Lewis’s First Cup of Coffee program and Hedge Fund Practice Conference.

Through his IP practice, Jacob has experience analyzing copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret issues and advising clients on protecting and developing their IP portfolios. His litigation experience includes cases for clients in a diverse range of technology fields, such as semiconductor chip manufacturing methods, medical devices, and mobile software. He has experience in forums, including the US District Court for the Central District of California, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the US International Trade Commission (USITC).

Publications

9/29/2022 - Investing in Crypto Asset Startups: Regulatory Considerations in an Ever-Evolving Market, The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation

6/15/2022 - Bipartisan Proposal Attempts to Provide Solutions for Comprehensive Regulation of Digital Assets

3/29/2022 - Biden-Harris Administration Takes On Digital Asset Regulation

2/23/2022 - NFTs: What's in Store for 2022?

5/19/2020 - USPTO Refuses to Recognize AI Inventorship, but Policy Questions Still Linger

6/28/2016 - Patent Reform Increasingly Risks Deadlock, San Francisco Daily Journal

5/15/2014 - No Easy Solution for Patent Troll Issue, Daily Journal

2013 - Data Caps: How ISPs Are Stunting the Growth of Online Video Distributors and What Regulators Can Do About It, Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 65 Issue 2

Education

Santa Clara University School of Law, 2013, J.D., summa cum laude

University of Puget Sound, 2008, B.A., with Honors