James Glenn

Of Counsel

Phone: (832) 341-3815

Legal Experience

James is a former partner at both Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Novak, Druce, Connolly, Bove & Quigg and has nearly 25 years’ experience in complex commercial issues focusing on Intellectual Property. He earned both a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1993 and a master’s degree in solid state physics in 1996 from Clemson University with extensive research experience in the behavior and depletion region characteristics of transistors. He continued his research at the University of South Carolina’s electrical engineering department helping to develop new microelectronic architectures, and the new methods of device formation on novel substrate materials.

After graduating from The University of South Carolina School of Law in 2001, James started as a prosecuting patent attorney concentrating on electronics, computer science, software, processors, and microelectronics through a multitude of applications and industries. However, James has spent most of his private practice as an intellectual property litigator, having litigated over 70 cases and IPRs in Federal District Courts, the CAFC, the PTAB, the 5th Circuit, and the Supreme Court. Along with being a first-chair litigator, James extensively counseled clients in intellectual property utilization through litigation, licensing, contract negotiation and drafting.

After leaving private practice in 2016, James turned his focus to counseling clients from an in-house perspective. As a consulting in-house specialist for intellectual property, as associate general counsel, and as general counsel, James has been responsible for overseeing companies’ litigation dockets, managing corporate mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, managing contract and deal negotiation, handling entire intellectual property portfolios for monetization and expansion, license negotiation with brand partners, coordinating brand management and enforcement, as well as continuing to practice as a registered patent attorney drafting and prosecuting patents in a wide variety of technological areas.

Upon returning to private practice, James brings a blend of experience as an intellectual property creator, enforcer, manager, and steward. While his deep experience as a litigator gives him the ability to handle and manage any case size in any jurisdiction, his experience as corporate general counsel gives him the insight to knowledgably counsel his clients about the costs and outcomes of those fights - so clients can make the best, most cost-effective business decisions. His philosophy centers around the efficient and business-focused utilization of a client’s intellectual property, be it through licensing, partnerships, or “bet the business” litigation. No two clients are alike and no two situations have identical solutions.

Admissions

Texas State Bar
U.S. District Court – Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals