Jay Jurata

Private litigation

• Microsoft in defending a Section 1 and Section 2 antitrust lawsuit brought by Elon Musk in the Northern District of California seeking to block Microsoft’s strategic partnership with OpenAI concerning artificial intelligence.
• Microsoft in defending an antitrust consumer class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California over the distribution of artificial intelligence.
• Cammeby’s in defending a Section 1 antitrust lawsuit brought by the New Jersey Attorney General concerning Cammeby’s use of rent price recommending software.
• Fox Corporation in resolving an antitrust lawsuit brought by Fubo against Disney, Fox and Warner Brothers relating to a proposed joint venture for creating and operating a streaming sports bundle.
• Microsoft, TikTok and Paddle.com in their role as interested parties in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Google.
• Zillow in dismissing an alleged Section 1 antitrust conspiracy lawsuit filed by REX Real Estate, relating to the display of broker listing information, securing a complete dismissal of REX’s antitrust claims on summary judgment and securing a favorable ruling in a two-week jury trial concerning REX’s remaining non-antitrust claims. In March 2025, a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel affirmed across-the-board Zillow’s trial court victories.
• ACV Auctions in successfully obtaining a license for AutoIMS after settling an alleged group boycott lawsuit against Manheim, ADESA and other physical auctions and associated entities in the Western District of New York.
• ACV Auctions in dismissing an alleged price fixing conspiracy lawsuit in the Western District of New York.
• Carnival Corporation in alleged sham litigation antitrust counterclaims in the Southern District of Florida.
• FUJIFILM in sham litigation antitrust claims filed against Hologic in the District of Delaware relating to mammography imaging services.
• Sharp Corporation in a standards-essential patent arbitration against Interdigital seeking more than US$390 million in damages for violations involving SEPs and FRAND.
• iBiquity in a multi-million-dollar trial victory in a "bet the company" licensing dispute involving SEPs and FRAND. Successfully dismissed a parallel lawsuit brought against iBiquity in federal court.
• Microsoft in a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Samsung concerning Nokia and the effect of the companies' patent cross-license agreement.
• EMC Corporation in dismissing patent litigation brought by an Intellectual Ventures "shell" organization in the Eastern District of Texas.
• Microsoft in dismissing, on summary determination, a defense raised by the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging that Microsoft's patent licensing program for distributers of Android-based devices constituted patent misuse.
• Microsoft in responding to claims brought against it in French court that Microsoft's pricing for its popular productivity software violated French competition law.
• Microsoft in defending against an antitrust class action lawsuit on behalf of government entities in Arizona alleging that Microsoft overcharged consumers for its popular operating systems and productivity software.
• Microsoft in its defense against antitrust class action lawsuits on behalf of indirect purchasers in California, Mississippi and other states alleging that it overcharged consumers for its popular operating systems and productivity software.
• Microsoft in a four-month antitrust trial in Iowa state court alleging that it overcharged consumers for its popular operating systems and productivity software.
• Microsoft in a two-month antitrust trial in Minnesota state court alleging that Microsoft overcharged consumers for its popular operating systems and productivity software.
• Texas Instruments and Stanford in a US$112 million patent damages verdict on behalf of Texas Instruments and Stanford after a four-week jury trial in the District Court of New Jersey; also obtained dismissal of Globespan's antitrust claims alleging that Texas Instrument's patent licensing practices violated U.S. antitrust law.
• Microsoft in defending against claims that including media player functionality as part of Windows violated U.S. antitrust law.

Government investigations/litigation

• Microsoft, Sonos, Cerence and others in their role as interested parties in the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Google.
• Microsoft in resolving the European Commission’s probe into the licensing terms for Alliance for Open Media’s AV1 video codec standard.
• Microsoft, as lead U.S. outside counsel, in resolving the Korea Fair Trade Commission’s (KFTC) opposition to Microsoft's US$7.2 billion purchase of Nokia's devices and services business. Mr. Jurata was responsible for the overall strategy in responding to the investigation, including preparing Microsoft's written submission to the KFTC, participating in oral arguments before the agency and developing the consent decree strategy that ultimately resolved the dispute.
• Emerging start-up companies in advocating the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to stop Google from allegedly manipulating its search ranking results to block potential competition to its search advertising monopoly.
• Microsoft in responding to allegations by Google that Nokia's 2011 sale of patents to a non-practicing entity violates EU competition law.
• Microsoft in securing unconditional clearance, through the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, of its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer, Inc., which adds Yammer's popular social networking tool for businesses to Microsoft's popular line of productivity software.
• The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in persuading the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Florida AG office to open a two-year antitrust investigation into IBM's business practices involving mainframe computing. 
• TurboHercules SAS in convincing the EU Directorate General for Competition to initiate a formal abuse of dominance investigation into IBM's conduct in mainframe computing.
• A U.S. importer seeking that the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and U.S. Federal Trade Commission stop the alleged manipulation of Department of Commerce antidumping procedures by certain companies to disadvantage competitors.
• Microsoft in responding to claims that browsing functionality as part of Windows and productivity software product design choices violated EU competition law. 
• GPX International Tire Corp. in seeking a preliminary injunction from the U.S. Court of International Trade to stay a ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission ordering antidumping counter duties for certain imported products.
• Western Refining, Inc. in successfully preventing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's request for a preliminary injunction to block Western's US$1.3 billion acquisition of Giant Industries, as well as the FTC's emergency requests for an injunction pending appeal from the district court and the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
• Microsoft in responding to claims that including media player functionality as part of Windows violated Korean competition law.
• Microsoft in responding to claims that including media player functionality as part of Windows violated Japanese competition law.

Counseling/compliance

• Numerous large technology companies on potential antitrust issues involving digital platforms, including e-commerce.
• Numerous large technology companies on potential antitrust issues under U.S., EU and Asia competition laws pertaining to the licensing of standards-essential patents.

Includes matters handled at Dechert or prior to joining the firm

• Litigator of the Week – American Lawyer (May 22, 2026)
• Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week – Law360 (May 22, 2026)
• Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week – Law360 (March 7, 2025)
  
• Antitrust: Litigation Specialists – District of Columbia – Chambers USA
  
• Antitrust – Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense – The Legal 500 US
• Winner – Reader’s Choice: Academic Articles – Antitrust Writing Awards (2022)
• Finalist – Business, Intellectual Property Articles – Antitrust Writing Awards (2015- 2018, 2020)

• America First: Aligning SEP Policy with the Trump Administration’s Agenda – Panelist, Global Competition Review and Lexology Webinar (October 15, 2025)
• Antitrust-Intellectual Property Interface Developments in the New Administration – Panelist, Antitrust Bar Association Intellectual Property Section Annual Meeting (May 1, 2025)
• The Global Dimension – Moderator, GCR Life: Antitrust in the Digital Economy (April 9, 2024)
• FOSS Patents' Chipset – Panelist, Component-Level SEP Licensing Conference (November 12, 2020)
• Anti-Trust Implications on the Enforcement of Patents; Rock-Paper-Scissors, When Can a Statutory Prohibition Trump a Constitutionally Granted Monopoly? – Panelist, EDTX Bench Bar Conference (September 24, 2019)
• Competition Law: Patent and Trade Implications for Litigation and Commerce – Panelist, Federal Circuit Bar Association's annual Bench & Bar Conference (June 12-15, 2019)
• Standards, Intellectual Property and the Future of the Internet of Things – Panelist, IoT World (May 15, 2019)
• Issues and Lessons Learned From the “Smartphone Wars” – Panelist, The App Association's 2019 Patents in Telecoms and the Internet of Things (March 20, 2019)
• Developments in FRAND “As Applied”: How Parties Are Working with the Ground Rules Now in Place – Panelist, GCR Live IP & Antitrust California 2018 (May 24, 2018)

• How SEP Hold-up Can Lead to Entrenchment – Co-author, Competition Policy International (November 2024)
• Glory Days: Do the Anticompetitive Effects of Standards-Essential Patent Pools Outweigh Their Procompetitive Benefits? –Co-author, San Diego Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (2021)
• USPTO, DOJ Downplay Essential Patents' Licensing Terms – Co-author, Law360 (February 7, 2020)
• FTC v. Qualcomm: Trial and Implications? – Author, Competition Policy International (January 2019)
• Standard-Essential Patents and Competition Law: An Overview of EU and National Case Law – Forward co-author, e-Competitions (November 22, 2018)
• United States:  IP and Antitrust – Co-author, The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2019 (published by Global Competition Review) (2018)
• Japan SEP Licensing Guide Also Aims to Prevent Abuse – Co-author, Law360 (August 27, 2018)
• Out of Sync? : DOJ’s Policy Reversal Towards SEPs Lacks Legal Support – Co-author, Global Competition Review (June 6, 2018)