WilmerHale

Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation; Intelectual Property Litigation; Intersection of Antitrust and IP; Life Sciences; Litigation; Trials

Partner

Jim Dowd is a trial lawyer and skilled appellate advocate with more than 25 years’ experience helping clients resolve complex intellectual property and commercial disputes. Mr. Dowd has particular expertise before the US International Trade Commission, having tried more than a dozen Section 337 investigations since 2002 with the Commission ruling for his client each time. Mr. Dowd has argued before the US Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Ninth Circuits, and has appeared before the US Supreme Court and numerous other appellate courts. Mr. Dowd has conducted jury trials in federal and state courts throughout the country, including in California, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, among other jurisdictions. He has litigated numerous post-grant review proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and has arbitrated patent disputes before the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).

Mr. Dowd has extensive experience resolving multinational “patent wars,” assisting clients in coordinating legal strategy across Europe, Asia, Australia and South America, as well as the United States, including in matters with well over $1 billion in controversy. He has litigated disputes at the intersection of patent and antitrust law, as well as disputes involving copyright, Lanham Act, trade secret and unfair competition claims. His cases have involved a diverse array of technologies, including biologics, circuit design, cryptography, flash memory, instruction set architectures, IoT, gaming systems, generative AI, GPS, life sciences, medical devices, photolithography, power management, relational databases, semiconductor manufacturing, wireless communications, and more. Representative past cases are noted below.

Bar Admissions: US Supreme Court California Virginia District of Columbia US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit US District Court for the Western District of Texas US District Court for the Central District of California US District Court for the Northern District of California US District Court for the Eastern District of California US District Court for the Southern District of California

Boston University School of Law, J.D. (1997)

Saint Michael's College, B.A. (1994)