For 20 years, Jim has been advising clients throughout the world on IP protection, licensing, and business disputes. His practice focuses on the acquisition, protection, licensing, exploitation, and sale of intangible assets for brand owners, content creators, and rights holders. Jim is a practical lawyer. His practice is industry agnostic, but includes fine art, consumer products, entertainment and media, technology, and healthcare.

Clients turn to Jim for strategic brand protection guidance and counsel. Jim manages all aspects of domestic and foreign brand selection and protection, including the creation, development, expansion, and management of trademark portfolios, creative brand enforcement strategies, licensing of brand assets, and advertising. Jim has conducted and reviewed countless searches and investigations for trademarks, prepared availability and registrability opinions, and prosecuted and managed hundreds of trademark applications and registrations throughout the world. Jim has also litigated dozens of trademark disputes, often involving internationally famous trademarks, in federal courts throughout the United States and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Jim also counsels clients on the protection and use of copyrighted works, including fine art, literary works, musical compositions and sound recordings, motion pictures and television, computer software, secured tests, and online content. Jim both advises on issues related to fair use, infringement, licensing, and clearance, and represents clients in copyright disputes and litigation. Jim also advises clients on issues related to social media, internet terms of use, privacy policies, GDPR compliance, and other compliance issues.

Jim’s practice also encompasses the representation of clients in connection with business and commercial disputes, trade secret and non-compete disputes, false advertising claims, privacy and publicity rights, and fraud cases.

Jim is admitted to practice in Illinois, the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the Western District of Wisconsin, the District of Colorado, the Seventh Circuit, and the Federal Circuit.

When he is not practicing law, Jim is a frequent concert goer, film lover, and Duke basketball fan.