James B. Coughlan

James Coughlan has extensive patent litigation experience before the U.S. International Trade Commission, both in his former role as a lead staff attorney and in his current role as partner.  He served as lead ITC counsel on behalf of two cell phone manufactures in one of the largest and most significant ITC actions on record, which resulted in the Federal Circuit's Kyocera decision.  His other representations included patents relating to audio processing integrated circuits, portable digital media players and wireless communication devices, including cell phone and "3G" technologies.

 

At the ITC Office of Unfair Import Investigations for five years, Jim served as lead staff attorney in many matters, including programmable integrated circuits, consumer goods and life sciences products.  Jim belongs to the ITC Trial Lawyers Association.