James Williams turns complex intellectual property challenges into opportunities, combining litigation skill and patent insight to protect what drives his clients’ success — their innovations.

EXPERIENCE

James Williams is a strategic litigator and registered patent attorney who helps clients protect and defend their most valuable assets. He handles high-stakes patent, trade secret, and copyright disputes, as well as complex business tort and unfair competition matters.  James is a registered patent attorney and represents both patent owners before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board with precision and foresight. Drawing on his background in electrical engineering, he guides clients through every stage of patent enforcement and protection.

Known for his sharp judgment and results-driven approach, James is the trusted advocate businesses turn to when their ideas — and success — are on the line.

Representative Matters

James has represented and advised a wide range of clients, including:

• An enterprise grade software developer in asserting trade secret misappropriation claims against a competitor that resulted in a $210 million jury award. *
• An oil and gas drilling and technology company in asserting a patent related to horizontal drilling guidance software against a competitor that resulted in a favorable pre-verdict settlement following a jury trial. *
• An artificial intelligence startup company in forming the company, negotiating partner and customer agreements, identifying and protecting intellectual property assets, and providing strategic counseling. *
• A cellular base station manufacturer in preparing patent owner preliminary responses to five petitions for inter partes review brought by the client’s licensee that resulted in the PTAB denying institution to three of the petitions and the dispute resolving before the PTAB issued institution decisions for the remaining two petitions.
• An enterprise network security company in asserting five patents relating to network security hardware and software against a competitor that resulted in a favorable settlement. *
• A core network equipment company in a multi-jurisdictional dispute against a competitor that involved asserting patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims and defending against patent infringement and business tort claims. The dispute resulted in a jury verdict of patent infringement for the client, a jury verdict of non-infringement for the patent claims against the client, and a $63 million public settlement of all disputes in favor of the client. *
• A cellular base station manufacturer and multiple cellular carriers in a multi-jurisdictional dispute against a publicly traded non-practicing entity asserting five patents alleged to be standard essential that resulted in the plaintiff dropping four patents and invalidation of the fifth. *
• Multiple cellular carriers in a multi-jurisdictional dispute against a publicly traded non-practicing entity asserting two patents alleged to be standard essential that resulted in summary judgment in favor of the client. *
• A handset manufacturer and prepared petitions for inter partes review of two wireless technology patents alleged to be standard essential in parallel litigation against the client that resulted in the PTAB instituting both petitions and a favorable settlement for the client in the parallel litigation. *

* identifies litigation matters at prior firms

Networks & Affiliations

Embedded within the legal community, James is a member of the following organizations –

• State Bar of Texas
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• United States District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas
• Dallas Bar Association

Education

James earned his law degree from the University of Iowa and his B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University.

Honors & Awards

James has been awarded by The Veterans Consortium for providing pro bono legal services to U.S. military veterans working to obtain benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.