JAMES JUO specializes in both litigation and patent prosecution. As a registered patent attorney, he has been successful in obtaining, licensing, and enforcing patents and trademarks. He also advises clients on the scope and validity of third party patent and trademark rights. He has worked on a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, electronics, and computer-related technologies.
Mr. Juo has also been involved in patent litigation at both the trial and appellate level, including summary judgment, Markman claim construction hearings, and jury trials in several U.S. District Courts. Mr. Juo also helped obtain a multi-million dollar award for one of his litigation clients.
He has also appeared in several Federal Circuit appeals, including Advanced Cardiovascular Sys., Inc. v. SciMed Life Sys., Inc., 261 F.3d 1329 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (winning reversal of adverse claim construction to vacate summary judgment); Medtronic, Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Sys., Inc., 248 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (winning affirmation of favorable district court decision); and Origin Medsystems, Inc. v. General Surgical Innovations, Inc., No. 98-1416, slip op. (Fed. Cir. 1999) (successfully overturned adverse summary judgment decision).
Mr. Juo was recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2007, and as a Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2005 and 2006, by the publishers of Los Angeles Magazine and The Journal for Law & Politics. He also recently sat on a select discussion panel at The Patent Office Comes to California seminar sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Juo served as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the technology area of television and facsimile machines.
Mr. Juo earned his J.D. from George Washington University in 1993, and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University in 1989. Mr. Juo is admitted to the bar in California and Virginia, and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is also a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association.