Michael H. Jacobs, Esq.

Lecturer

Johns Hopkins University

Information Security Institute

Rights in the Digital Age Course Page

Email:  mjacobs at crowell.com

Education
Juris Doctor Georgetown University     1996
Master of Science in Engineering and Applied Science     Yale University 1989
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Villanova University 1987
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Villanova University 1984

Experience and Interests
Mr. Jacobs is an attorney with Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C.  He practices in the Intellectual Property Group of the firm and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Jacobs has been a member of JHU’s faculty since 1999.  His areas of interest are patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and privacy law.

Publications/Presentations
“Enforcement of Design Protection in View of the Popularization of 3D Printing,” XXXVI Congresso Internacional da Propriedade Intelectual - ABPI (XXXVI International Congress on Intellectual Property - ABPI), São Paulo, Brazil (August 30, 2016). Co-Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property Cases,” Federation of Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (FIERGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil (July 13, 2012). Co-Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“I Seminário Brasil - EUA: A Propriedade Intelectual da Empresa na Internet,” (Seminar U.S. - Brazil: A Company's Intellectual Property on the Internet), Hotel Grand Hyatt, São Paulo, Brazil (July 11, 2012). Co-Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“Intellectual Property Issues in Employment Law,” Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section, 22nd Annual IP Fall CLE Weekend Seminar, Williamsburg, VA (October 2010). Co-Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“Copyright and Other Traps,” Women in Government Relations Seminar on "Using Emerging Media to Power Your Grassroots, PAC, and Public Affairs Efforts," Washington, DC (April 2009). Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“Patent Reform in the United States: The Potential Consequences,” Webcast to Australian IP Attorneys (October 2008). Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“Strategic Advice in the Aftermath of KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc.,” Japanese Patent Attorneys Association, Tokyo, Japan (October 2007). Presenter: Michael H. Jacobs.

“Finding and Managing Corporate Intellectual Property Assets,” co-presenter, 68th Annual Virginia State Bar Meeting, June 2006.

“Recent Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 21,” co-author, International Legal Strategy, pp. 84-88, November 2000.

“Recent Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 6,” co-author, International Legal Strategy, pp. 82-87, August 1999.

“Now It’s Easier to Tell No Tales from Japan,” co-author, Legal Times Special Report on Intellectual Property, pp. 25-29, April 12, 1999 (reprinted in Managing Intellectual Property, pp. 15-17, May 1999).

Michael H. Jacobs, S. S. Rao, and Gregory V. José, “Parametric Modeling of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. BME-36, pp. 392-403, March 1989.

Michael H. Jacobs, S. S. Rao, Edward Kresch, and Gregory V. José, “Autoregressive Moving Average Modeling of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials,” in Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987 (Student Paper Supplement).

Gregory V. José, S. S. Rao, and Michael H. Jacobs, “State Space Modeling of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials,” in Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987 (Student Paper Supplement).

Joseph L. Kozikowski and Michael H. Jacobs, “Equalization of Magnetoresistive Readback Signals,” Control Data Corporation, Report No. 85V101, July 1986.

Ernest Baran, Michael Jacobs, Edward Kresch, and JoDee Odland, “Correlation Coefficient Analysis of Somatosensory Evoked Potential Waveforms,” presented at 31st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Electromyography and Electrodiagnosis, Kansas City, MO, September 1984; abstract published in Muscle and Nerve, September 1984.