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Jason Beckstead is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Orange County office. He is a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department and his practice includes patent prosecution, intellectual property counseling and litigation matters.
Prior to joining the Firm, Jay worked as both a patent prosecutor and as a criminal prosecutor. In patent prosecution Jay worked in Washington, D.C. and in Silicon Valley for an international law firm where he prosecuted patent applications across a broad spectrum of technologies including data storage systems, wireless communications, wireless content transfer, microchips, medical imaging and computer hardware. He has over ten years of technology/engineering experience including work with semiconductor devices, medical electronics and military avionics systems.
As an assistant district attorney Jay successfully resolved thousands of criminal cases including first chair of dozens of criminal trials with a conviction rate of approximately 98 percent. He took numerous cases to trial including felony domestic violence, transportation of illegal drugs for sale, assault and battery and attempted murder.
Jay is a Marine Corps veteran where he served on active duty from 1988 to 1993. He is a graduate of one of the United States Navy’s most advanced technical schools, after which he worked in electronic warfare with a focus on component-level repair of Deceptive Electronic Countermeasures (DECM) avionics systems.
Jay earned his bachelor’s of science degree magna cum laude in professional aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1998.
He received his J.D. from the Vanderbilt University Law School in 2002.
Jay is admitted to practice in Arizona, California and the District of Columbia. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education:
Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2002.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, B.S. (magna cum laude), 1998. | 