James L. KatzPatent Attorney - Partner
direct: 312.854.8372 main: 312.291.0860 fax: 312.291.0864
email: jkatz@lsk-iplaw.com
Professional ExperienceJim Katz's practice focuses on all aspects of patent law, including patent prosecution, trade secret protection, opinions, licensing and litigation, in the areas of computer, electrical and mechanical technologies.
Jim's practice relating to computer technology includes computer architecture, hardware and software as well as Internet and e-commerce related technologies, such as business methods and mobile applications. Jim's prosecution experience has involved such diverse technologies as semiconductor processes, memory management units, flash memory, electrical power monitoring, diagnostic medical ultrasound, mobile device e-commerce applications, and object oriented programming.
In the areas of e-commerce and the Internet, Jim maintains extensive familiarity with the state of the art through routine surveys of U.S. and foreign patent applications and issued patents related to electronic commerce, computer software and business methods. Jim's prosecution and litigation experience in the areas of e-commerce and the Internet has specifically involved transaction processing, such as transaction fraud detection; manufacturing, such as build-to-order systems; user interfaces, such as software and web based user interfaces; data communication and manipulation, such as electronic mail, web browser/server interaction and other TCP/IP protocol based technologies; business models and processes, such as financial products and processes, product marketing and advertising systems; and networking, such as network communications equipment and monitoring.
Legal ExperiencePrior to forming Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC, Jim was a partner at Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione in Chicago. Jim’s 12 years with Brinks provided invaluable experience in client counseling, patent prosecution, litigation and licensing. During his tenure with Brinks, Jim also served as chair of Brinks’ Docket Oversight Committee for 5 years, overseeing firm-wide docket operations as well as defining firm docketing, prosecution and liability-mitigation policies and procedures. Non-Legal ExperienceJim’s career began with the Amdahl Corporation as a Test Engineer and as a Design Engineer, focusing on architectural design for enterprise-scale mainframe computer systems. He also worked for HaL Computer Systems, Inc. as a Design Verification Engineer, focusing on simulator software development for multiprocessor storage architectures, including cache memory and memory management unit design. Jim has a working knowledge of integrated circuit development, design and manufacturing, networking, operating systems and programming languages, including Windows, Mac OS, Unix, DOS, IBM 370/390 Assembly, Perl, C++ and Fortran.
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primary expertise areas Electrical & Computer Electronic Commerce Business Methods Licensing Patent Prosecution
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Admissions U.S. Patent & Trademark Office U.S. District Court, Northern Disctrict of Illinois
Education J.D., Indiana University School of Law, 1998
B.S.E., Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, 1990 |
Illinois Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2008