Jay Emerick

Partner Intellectual Property

Chicago +1 312 862 3772

Jay Emerick

Overview

Jay Emerick is an intellectual property partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Jay focuses his practice on patent infringement cases in district court, the International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and on appeal at the Federal Circuit. Jay’s cases have involved pharmaceuticals, mechanical devices such as heart valves, electric motors, heat exchangers, and beer dispensers, and software for communications and financial transactions.

Certain Beverage Dispensing Systems (ITC 2018). Representing Heineken in investigation filed against Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Fundamental Innovation Systems Int’l LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al. (E.D. Tex. 2017). Defended Samsung in case filed by Fundamental.

Certain Thermoplastic-Encapsulated Electric Motors (ITC 2017). Defended Mitsuba in investigation filed by Intellectual Ventures.

Modine Mfg. Co. v. BorgWarner, Inc., (D. Del. 2017). Represented Modine in case filed against BorgWarner.

Intellectual Ventures v. JP Morgan Chase (SDNY 2013), SunTrust Banks (N.D. Ga. 2013), First National Bank of Omaha (D. Neb. 2013), BBVA Compass (N.D. Ala. 2013), Commerce Bancshares (W.D. Mo. 2013), US Bancorp (D. Minn. 2013), Huntington Bancshares (S.D. Ohio 2013), Capital One (D. Md. 2013), Citibank (SDNY 2014), PNC (W.D. Pa. 2014). Represented multiple banks in multi-patent infringement litigation involving online banking and security technology.

PILI Fellow, Chicago Legal Clinic, 2013

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2012

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Thought Leadership

Publications 

Co-Author with Aaron Snyder, Nathan Bower & Mark Snyder, "Mountain Pine Beetle Attack Associated with Low Levels of 4-Allylanisole in Ponderosa Pine," 37 ENVTL. ENTOMOLOGY 871, 2008

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2013Illinois

Education

  • University of Michigan Law SchoolJ.D.cum laude2013

    Clarence Darrow Scholarship (full tuition merit scholarship)

    Contributing Editor, Michigan Law Review

  • Colorado CollegeB.A., Chemistrycum laude2010
    Otis A. and Margaret T. Barnes Scholarship in Chemistry (full tuition merit scholarship)

Pro Bono

Montanez v. Trost et al. (S.D. Ill. 2015). Represented prisoner in Eighth Amendment case against prison doctor for inadequate medical care.

During law school, Jay also worked on behalf of the Michigan Innocence Clinic representing innocent defendants in criminal appeals and re-trials.