James Dowd

About James Dowd

Jim is a first chair trial lawyer and skilled appellate advocate with nearly twenty-five years’ experience helping clients resolve complex intellectual property and commercial disputes. Jim has conducted jury trials in federal and state courts throughout the country, including in California, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, among other jurisdictions. He has argued before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Ninth Circuits, and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court and numerous other appellate courts. Jim has conducted bench trials in eleven United States International Trade Commission Section 337 investigations since 2002, with the Commission ruling for his clients each time, and he has arbitrated patent disputes before the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution. He is well-versed in litigating post-grant review proceedings before the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.Jim has extensive experience resolving multi-national “patent wars,” assisting clients in coordinating legal strategy across Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America, as well as the United States, including in multiple matters with well over $1 billion in controversy. He has litigated disputes at the intersection of patent and antitrust law, as well as copyright, Lanham Act, trade secret, and unfair competition disputes. His cases have involved a diverse array of technologies, including wireless communications, semiconductor manufacturing, biologics, analog and digital circuit design, medical devices, gaming, computer instruction set architecture, power management, GPS, solid-state memories, satellites, relational databases, bicycle rims, IOT, and more. For additional information, please see: Admissions: U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits, State and Federal Courts in California, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Experience

1. Partner

   WilmerHale

   Jan 1997 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Recent Highlights- Prevailed for public GPS chip company in successive ITC trials involving more than 120 claims of eleven separate patents- Obtained rulings for public semiconductor company in successive trials accusing client\'s flash memory technology of infringing three patents- Achieved finding for public microlithography equipment company that all asserted claims of five patents were invalid, not infringed, or unenforceable.Speaking Engagements-\"When and How to File an ITC Action in Patent Cases,\" National CLE Conference - Intellectual Property, Vail, Colorado, January 3-7, 2009-\"Current Trends in Patent Litigation: A Report From The Front Lines,\" 33rd Annual Intellectual Property Institute, Rancho Mirage, California, November 7, 2008.Publications- Dowd, James M,\"Oligopsony Power: Antitrust Injury and Collusive Buyer Practices in Input Markets,\" 76 B.U. L. Rev.

Education

• University of Galway

  Political Science

  1993 — 1993

• Saint Michael's College

  BA, Political Science, Economics

  1990 — 1994

• Boston University School of Law

  JD

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Litigation
• Civil Litigation
• Contract Negotiation
• Patents
• Competition Law
• Trials
• Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Courts