Jim White specializes in the domestic and foreign prosecution of software and Internet-related patents, and also provides services in strategic planning and analysis of patent portfolios, patent validity and infringement opinions, and patent licensing. He received his technical degrees from Stanford University, including an M.S. in Computer Science (1991) and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence (1989). After over six years of work as a software engineer in the Silicon Valley, he returned to Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his J.D. (1997) and was appointed to the Order of the Coif. While at Boalt Hall, he was the Executive Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Jim's professional experience includes research and development experience at several companies, including Nortel Networks and Rockwell International. He has extensive expertise in a number of software-related technologies and e-commerce applications, including object-oriented programming, cryptography, telecom, data mining, operating systems, networking, decision theory, artificial intelligence, compilers, and parallel-processing.

Jim has spoken on and is co-author of the publication, "Software Patents: Procuring and Enforcing," The Patent Resources Group, October 1999, as well as authoring several other software-related legal publications.

Jim is admitted to the Washington State Bar (1997) and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the Washington State Patent Law Association.

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