Senior Associate
Chicago
Innovative, collegial, and experienced, Thomas James has built his career advocating in high-stakes, high tech patent litigations. Thomas is recognized by clients and colleagues for his ability to quickly reduce complex problems to their core, and present simple and, when necessary, novel solutions.
Thomas’s intellectual property litigation practice is an outgrowth of his deep interest in technology and love of client service. Thomas has assisted clients, large and small, plaintiff and defendant, in obtaining outcomes that serve their unique business goals. Thomas is well-versed in a variety of technologies including semiconductor devices, telecommunications, and other electrical and mechanical disciplines. Prior to entering private practice Thomas served as a patent examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for many years.
Thomas has litigated over 30 district court cases, numerous IPRs, and a number of cases before the United States International Trade Commission.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.