For more than 30 years, Jim Peterson has been the "go-to" intellectual property attorney for companies seeking the best there is in creating and implementing strategy for procuring, licensing, and enforcing intellectual property portfolios on a global basis. Companies Jim has represented include Apple Computer, Cardia, Carl Zeiss SMS GmbH., Conor Medsystem, ELF Technologies, Imagyn Medical, Lam Research Corporation, LiveFuels, Luxtron Corporation, Metcal (OK Industries), Nano-Tex, Nanosteller, Nantero, Nordic Naturals, Pilkington Barns Hind, Power Spectra, Progressive Angioplasty Systems, Raser Technologies, Raychem Corporation, Solo Energy, and Urohealth Systems.
Jim has been defending, enforcing, and monetizing patents and trademarks around the world through reexaminations, expedited prosecution, licensing, litigation, and sale. His experience in building patent and trademark assets extends, when it is time, to assisting in building client's in-house capability.
As chair of Jones Day's Emerging Technologies group focusing on clean technology and nanotechnology, Jim has been a frequent lecturer and author. He has spoken on intellectual property law subjects at meetings of the Industrial Design Society of America, the International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, the International Conference on Martensitic Transformation, the Nanotech Investing Forum, and other professional societies and technical groups.