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James
K. Okamoto.....Patrick
D. Benedicto
Partner
Ph. (408) 436 - 2111
Fax (408) 436 - 2114
Email: james@OBLLP.com
James K. Okamoto practices intellectual property
law with an emphasis on patent preparation and prosecution, client
counseling, and litigation support.
Dr. Okamoto has
prepared and prosecuted numerous patent applications in a wide range of
technological areas, including semiconductor devices and processes,
electronics, computer hardware and software, networking,
telecommunications, and digital video. He has significant experience
counseling numerous high technology companies regarding offensive and
defensive patent strategies. He has
managed domestic and international patent portfolios for various
venture-backed start-up companies. Dr. Okamoto has also been co-counsel in
intellectual property litigations, successfully defending a semiconductor
client against patent claims and winning an injunction based on copyright
infringement for a software client. Prior to co-founding the firm, he
served as director of intellectual property and corporate counsel at a
startup company in the interactive TV industry.
Before his legal
career, Dr. Okamoto supervised laboratories in electron microscopy and
semiconductor fabrication at the California Institute of Technology. He has published several research papers
in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Applied
Physics and Physical Review Letters, and co-authored a chapter
in Transmission Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry in Materials Science
(1992). As an undergraduate, he
worked part-time doing circuit simulations as an engineering aide at
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Okamoto holds a
B.S. in Physics with honors (1988), an M.S. in Applied Physics (1989), and
a Ph.D. in Applied Physics (1993), all from the California Institute of
Technology. He earned his J.D. at Stanford Law
School (1996). He is
admitted to practice law in California,
before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States
District Court for the Northern District of California, and the Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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