Representative Practice Areas:
- Preparing patent applications as well as applications to register trademarks and copyrights and guiding these applications through the relevant agencies of U.S. and international governments.
- Handling contested administrative proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including trademark opposition/cancellation cases, patent reexaminations and patent interferences.
- Rendering opinions about the validity and infringement/non-infringement of patents.
- Resolving disputes involving domain names and other Internet-related issues.
- Negotiating written agreements licensing patents, trademarks and copyrights, including those that arose from settlement of litigation.
Experience:
- Jim has practiced intellectual property law for over twenty-five years.
- Jim is familiar with technologies such as medical treatment devices, atomic emission sources and related analytical instruments, optical instruments, automotive technology, piezoelectric sensors, semiconductor manufacturing, textile machinery, agricultural machinery.
- He served as an engineer testing steam generators for the Trident Nuclear Submarine power plant.
- He clerked for a Federal Judge at the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., with a docket of patent infringement cases brought against the Federal Government.
- Jim represented clients in Federal Courts in lawsuits involving utility patents, design patents, trademarks & copyrights, from pre-filing analysis and planning through petition before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professional Background:
- Education: Fairfield University (B.S., cum laude, Physics, 1973); George Washington University Law School (J.D., with honors 1980).
- Admitted to Practice: South Carolina; District of Columbia; New Jersey; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; U.S. Claims Court; U.S. Supreme Court.
- Member: American Bar Association; Carolina Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Association (Former President).
- Honors: AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
- Publications: Co-author, “Double Exposure Interferometry,” American Journal of Physics; Co-author, “Licensing Impact of Foreign Policy Motivated Retroactive Reexport Regulations,” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law; Co-author, “Developments at the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology,” The Trademark Reporter.
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