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Jacob Golan’s practice focuses on obtaining intellectual property protection and providing counsel to clients in the biotechnology, agrotechnology, and medical device and therapeutics fields. He assists clients with worldwide patent prosecution, portfolio development and management, patentability and infringement analysis, due diligence, and related counseling.
Jacob currently represents clients in a wide range of areas including biopolymers, immunotherapies, plant varieties, transgenic organisms, medical devices and compositions, and sequencing platforms.
Jacob earned his Ph.D. in fungal biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focused on genome evolution and the biophysics of microbial disease spread.
Previously, Jacob was an intellectual property specialist for the USDA Forest Service Patent Program for 8 years.
Jacob is also involved in various pro bono efforts related to Indigenous Peoples rights in the context of intellectual property, counseling Indigenous leaders on protecting their communities’ genetic resources and digital sequence information (DSI).
Jacob was a Summer Associate for Knobbe Martens in 2021 and 2022 and joined the firm as an Associate in 2023.
Golan, J., Athayde, S., Olson, E. A., & McAlvay, A. (2019). Intellectual Property Rights and Ethnobiology: An Update on Posey’s Call to Action. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(1), 90-109. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-39.1.90
Golan J, Riddle K, Hudson M, Anderson J, Kusabs N and Coltman T (2022) Benefit sharing: Why inclusive provenance metadata matter. Front. Genet. 13:1014044. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1014044
Golan, J (2022) The Food Microbiome as Traditional Knowledge. NYU Journal of Intellectual Pro. & Entm’t L.