Saul Acherman

Saul Acherman is the Managing Attorney at Jafari Law Group and is licensed to practice law in California. His practice centers on intellectual property and employment law, where he brings nearly two decades of experience in both prosecution and litigation.

Saul began his legal career with Jafari Law Group in 2005 during the firm’s early days as a law clerk, assisting on patent and trademark matters. After earning his law degree, he returned to the firm in 2013 and has since built a robust practice spanning intellectual property procurement, licensing, enforcement, and litigation. Today, as Managing Attorney, he leads the firm’s legal team and oversees strategy across all practice areas.

Saul is also a registered patent attorney, licensed to practice before the USPTO (Registration No. 72,898). He is admitted to practice in all California state courts as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts of California.
In patent prosecution, he has filed and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications, resulting in hundreds of issued patents. In the area of trademark prosecution, Saul has filed and registered hundreds of trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Beyond prosecution, he regularly represents clients in disputes involving trademark, copyright, and patent infringement; trade secret misappropriation; breach of contract; internet domain name disputes; and unfair competition. He also has extensive experience in cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), having been involved in more than 38 TTAB cases. His litigation practice covers all phases of a case, from pre-filing strategy through trial and appeal, in both state and federal courts.

In addition to his intellectual property practice, Saul handles employment litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. On the plaintiff side, his representation has been instrumental in securing more than $10 million in settlements.

He earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California and his J.D. from Northwestern California University School of Law. He also pursued studies in Physics, with an emphasis on Computational Physics, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A native of Colombia, Saul is fluent in Spanish.