Jim is a co-founder of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds and has retired to Special Counsel. For more than 45 years, Jim helped universities, start-ups and emerging companies, small companies, and mid-sized corporations obtain, expand, and protect intellectual property rights.
Jim devoted his career to the practice of intellectual property law with particular focus on patent prosecution and post-grant proceedings, portfolio strategy and counseling, due diligence studies, opinions, freedom to operate studies and intellectual property litigation support.
Jim assisted clients in the electronics, computer science, communications, physical science and various engineering fields including electrical, biomedical and mechanical engineering. With regards to complex electronic and computer software advancements, Jim worked in the areas of analog and digital circuits, network routers and algorithms, wireless communications, memory devices and systems, power supplies, speech processing and business applications.
Jim’s practice offered equal expertise in the physical sciences including medical devices, infrared and electromagnetic sensors, electro-mechanical drives, battery systems, lasers, cryotechnology, and optics.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Massachusetts
- Virginia
Education
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, Old Dominion University
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
Practice Areas
- Counseling
- Design Patents
- Patents
- Post-Grant Proceedings
Technologies
- Clean Technology
- Electrical Engineering
- Hardware
- Internet of Things
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Devices
- Medical Imaging
- Mobile
- Network Infrastructure
- Optics & Photonics
- Robotics
- Semiconductors
- Software
- Telecommunications
Professional Associations
- Boston Intellectual Property Law Association (BIPLA)
- Massachusetts Bar Association