R. James Balls
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Intellectual Property, Patent
1401 Eye ("I") Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005
About R. James Balls
Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property
- Patent
Education
- University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005J.D.
- Utah State University, 2000B.S. Chemistry
- Major: Chemistry
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Minor: Japanese
Languages
- Japanese
Classes and Seminars
- A Former Examiner’s Perspective to Working With the USPTO, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Wilmington, DE, April 11, 2010 - Present
- Obviousness-Type Double Patenting in View of Amgen v. Hoffmann-La Roche, Firm-Wide Educational Seminar, Washington, October 14, 2009 - Present
- Recent Developments in the Law of Obviousness, Associate Firm Educational Outreach, Tokyo, Japan, March 25, 2009 - Present
- New Rules of the USPTO, Associate Firm Educational Outreach, November 5, 2007 - Present
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Utah, 2005
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2005
- Washington, 2008
Other Affiliations
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Bar Association
Past Positions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Examiner
- Myriad Genetics, Patent Clerk
- Alliant Techsystems, Chemist
- Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd
Office Info
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