James V. Suggs
James V. Suggs concentrates in patent law. His litigation experience includes federal district court and appellate practice as well as advocacy in forums such as the International Trade Commission, and spans a diverse range of technologies from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to circuit boards. He also prepares and prosecutes patent applications, prepares opinions of counsel, and provides technological advice in support of validity, infringement, and patentability analyses in chemical, materials science, integrated optics, and related matters.
Mr. Suggs was a patent agent in the intellectual property department at Corning Incorporated, where he prepared and prosecuted patent applications in polymer and organic chemistry, glass, ceramics, photonics, and optical fiber technologies. Before turning to patent law, he was a scientist in the Science and Technology division at Corning Incorporated and at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he developed polymer- and liquid crystal-based photonic devices for telecommunications and chemical sensing applications. He is listed as an inventor on five issued U.S. patents.
education
J.D., Cornell Law School, Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chemistry
Graduate Research: Synthesis of the bicyclic ketal core of the zaragozic acids
B.S., Harvey Mudd College, Chemistry, With Distinction
bar admissions
Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
publications
"Trademark Infringement by the Sale and Use of Search Engine Keywords" snippets, Vol. 5, Issue 2, November 2007.
"Threshold Intellectual Property Issues for the Small Pharmaceutical Company," ACS National Meeting, August, 2007.
"Pharmaceutical Salts: Are They Patentable or Obvious in View of Recent Federal Circuit and Supreme Court Cases?," ACS National Meeting, August, 2007.
"Trademark Infringement by Web Page Metadata" snippets, Vol. 5, Issue 1, May 2007.