JENNIFER SERAPHINE

PARTNER

seraphine@turnerboyd.com
650.265.6018

• Education, Clerkships, and Languages

  • Jacksonville University, B.A. Philosophy and Political Science, 1992

  • Florida State University College of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, Associate Editor of the Florida State Law Review, 1995

  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr., United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Miami and Fort Lauderdale), 1995-1997

  • Proficient in teenager (As the mother of two teenage sons Jennifer endeavors to speak fluent teenager, but regularly fails — or chooses not to — catch the nuances of the language.)

• Admissions

  • State Bar of California

  • State Bar of New York

  • District of Columbia Bar

  • State Bar of Florida

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  • United States District Court, California (Northern and Central Districts)

  • United States District Court, Florida (Middle and Southern Districts)

  • United States District Court, New York (Eastern and Southern Districts)

• Publications and Presentations

  Presentations

  • IP Ethics, Alameda Bar Association, with Mario Moya and Mani Sheik (2023)

  • US Litigation including § 1782 Discovery, with Keeley Vega (2023)

  • AIA Patents in Litigation, Turner Boyd’s Fifth Annual California MCLE Program (January 2019)

  • AIA Patents in Litigation, Nineteenth Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute (December 2018)

  • Show Me the Money (Ethically): Ethics Issues Surrounding Third-Party Litigation Financing, Turner Boyd’s Fourth Annual California MCLE Program (January 2018), with Rob Kent

  • Storytelling in IP Litigation – How to Talk to Judges and Juries in Tech Trials, The Northern District of California Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Moderator of Panel including U.S. District Judge James Donato, Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, and Robert Van Nest (Keker, Van Nest & Peters) (February 2017)

  • Summary of U.S. Patent Law, presented at Bardehle law firm in Munich, Germany, July 2014

  Publications

  • Upcoming Federal Rules Changes, Newsletter for the Federal Litigation Section of Federal Bar Association, 2023

  • Timing Is Everything: Pre-Discovery Identification of Trade Secrets in California State and Federal District Courts, Daily Journal, 2021

  • Update: U.S. Supreme Court’s Akamai Decision: Induced Patent Infringement Must Be Predicated On Direct Infringement By A Single Actor, The Federal Lawyer, with Heather Potts, August 2014

  • Patent Infringers May No Longer Divide And Conquer Under An Induced Infringement Theory Following Akamai and Epic Systems, The Federal Lawyer, with Heather Potts, October/November 2013 Intellectual Property Law Issue

A “Top Intellectual Property Lawyer” and “Woman Leader In Tech Law,” Jennifer Seraphine regularly appears as lead trial counsel in intellectual property cases in district courts throughout the United States and before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board and International Trade Commission.

Jennifer represents her clients in all aspects of litigation, and has obtained successful results at the dispositive motion stage and at trial. She has also negotiated several high-level, multi-million dollar settlements, both pre- and post- complaint filing.

Jennifer’s clients range from individual inventors and creators to Fortune 100 companies. Over the past five years, Jennifer has been lead counsel in the IP trifecta of patent, trademark, and copyright cases. Those cases have criss-crossed the country, and in that same time frame Jennifer has appeared in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Virginia, Middle District of Florida, Eastern District of Tennessee, and Western District of North Carolina, as well as the Central and Northern Districts of California.

Jennifer began her practice as a law clerk in the Southern District of Florida, clerking for the Honorable Judge Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. She then practiced at a small litigation firm in Miami, Florida, after which she joined Jones Day as an associate and later Partner in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices. Jennifer also served a short stint at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, trying numerous criminal cases.

Jennifer currently serves as the co-chair of the Rules and Practices Committee of the Federal Litigation Section of the Federal Bar Association, and is a member of the Federal Bar Association, Northern California chapter; the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court in San Francisco; and ChIPs (Chiefs in Intellectual Property), an organization dedicated to advancing women at the confluence of technology, law and policy. She is also a Founding Member of the Lead Counsel Summit, a group of lawyers working toward increasing the number of women lead counsel in private practice in the area of intellectual property litigation and appeals.

Jennifer has been named a Top Intellectual Property Lawyer (Daily Journal, 2022, 2023); an Elite Boutique Trailblazer (National Law Journal, 2022); and a Women Leader in Tech Law (The Recorder, 2018).

With this depth and breadth of experience, Jennifer brings a deep understanding of trial practice and IP law, a steadfast dedication to achieving her client’s goals, and litigation savvy that helps her present arguments to judges, juries and opposing counsel with clarity, confidence and conviction to every case she takes on.