diff --git a/formats/json-jackson/src/main/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormat.java b/formats/json-jackson/src/main/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormat.java
index 8454a5a22..7297e044c 100644
--- a/formats/json-jackson/src/main/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormat.java
+++ b/formats/json-jackson/src/main/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormat.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public final class JsonFormat implements EventFormat {
     /**
      * JSON Data Content Type Discriminator
      */
-    private static final Pattern JSON_CONTENT_TYPE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^(application|text)\\/([a-zA-Z]+\\+)?json$");
+    private static final Pattern JSON_CONTENT_TYPE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^(application|text)\\/([a-zA-Z]+\\+)?json(;[\\s\\w\"!#$%&'*+.^_`|~=-]*)*$");
     private final ObjectMapper mapper;
     private final JsonFormatOptions options;
 
diff --git a/formats/json-jackson/src/test/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormatTest.java b/formats/json-jackson/src/test/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormatTest.java
index 7e40fe98e..253e2fc89 100644
--- a/formats/json-jackson/src/test/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormatTest.java
+++ b/formats/json-jackson/src/test/java/io/cloudevents/jackson/JsonFormatTest.java
@@ -47,6 +47,22 @@ class JsonFormatTest {
 
     private final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
 
+    @ParameterizedTest
+    @MethodSource("jsonContentTypes")
+    void isJsonContentType(String contentType) {
+        boolean json = JsonFormat.dataIsJsonContentType(contentType);
+
+        assertThat(json).isTrue();
+    }
+
+    @ParameterizedTest
+    @MethodSource("wrongJsonContentTypes")
+    void isNotJsonContentType(String contentType) {
+        boolean json = JsonFormat.dataIsJsonContentType(contentType);
+
+        assertThat(json).isFalse();
+    }
+
     @ParameterizedTest
     @MethodSource("serializeTestArgumentsDefault")
     void serialize(CloudEvent input, String outputFile) throws IOException {
@@ -151,6 +167,39 @@ void verifyDeserializeError(String inputFile){
 
     }
 
+    static Stream<Arguments> jsonContentTypes() {
+        return Stream.of(
+            Arguments.of("application/json"),
+            Arguments.of("application/json;charset=utf-8"),
+            Arguments.of("application/json;\tcharset = \"utf-8\""),
+            Arguments.of("application/cloudevents+json;charset=UTF-8"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json;charset=utf-8"),
+            Arguments.of("text/cloudevents+json;charset=UTF-8"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json;\twhatever"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json; boundary=something"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json;foo=\"bar\""),
+            Arguments.of("text/json; charset = \"us-ascii\""),
+            Arguments.of("text/json; \t"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json;"),
+            //https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2045#section-5.1
+            // any us-ascii char can be part of parameters (except CTRLs and tspecials)
+            Arguments.of("text/json; char-set = $!#$%&'*+.^_`|"),
+            Arguments.of((Object) null)
+        );
+    }
+
+    static Stream<Arguments> wrongJsonContentTypes() {
+        return Stream.of(
+            Arguments.of("applications/json"),
+            Arguments.of("application/jsom"),
+            Arguments.of("application/jsonwrong"),
+            Arguments.of("text/json "),
+            Arguments.of("text/json ;"),
+            Arguments.of("test/json")
+        );
+    }
+
     public static Stream<Arguments> serializeTestArgumentsDefault() {
         return Stream.of(
             Arguments.of(V03_MIN, "v03/min.json"),