Bio
Jim is a member in McDonald Hopkins Intellectual Property Department and a strategic intellectual property advisor who helps clients develop and protect the value of their global intellectual property portfolios. His practice encompasses all components of intellectual property – domestic and foreign patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets – with a primary focus on businesses seeking market penetration and growth in the use of computer software, hardware, electronics, automation, and internet technologies.
A registered patent attorney, Jim is highly experienced in patent clearance and patentability counseling, as well as patent application preparation and prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He regularly advises clients concerning corporate transactions, licenses, transfers, MSAs, SaaS and platform license agreements, development agreements, and related matters involving their intellectual property. Jim also has extensive experience enforcing and defending clients’ intellectual property rights in litigation involving numerous technologies before federal courts across the country. Many client matters also involve name, image, and likeness (NIL) (i.e., for collegiate athletes, civil rights leaders, politicians, Hollywood movie stars, models, comedians, and other noteworthy individuals).
Additional information is available at his firm Bio.
