Jim Ewing focuses his legal practice on intellectual property strategy, patent litigation and patent portfolio prosecution and management. Fields of technology in which he has direct and current experience include medical devices, electronic commerce, telecommunications and software technologies, carpet and textile products and equipment, and counseling and representation of technology-based start-up companies. Mr. Ewing is extensively involved in writing patents, prosecuting them, leveraging them, strategy, management and licensing in orthopedic implant structures and processes, surgical navigation systems, wound management products, information technology and wireless fields, including fiber optics, radio-frequency modulation and encoding, encryption, security and privacy-related systems and processes, wireless network systems and network theory.

Mr. Ewing was named to the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for 2009 and International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers 2009. He was listed for Intellectual Property law The Best Lawyers in America® in 2011 and each of the ten years immediately preceding.  He was also listed in the 2010 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and for each of the seven years immediately preceding in the area of Intellectual Property. He was also recognized as a Top 2010 Georgia "Super Lawyer" for Intellectual Property law by SuperLawyers magazine and is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

* CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.

Professional & Community Activities

American Bar Association, Member

American Intellectual Property Law Association, Member

Atlanta Bar Association, Member

Federalist Society’s IP Subcommittee on Patents, Chair

Patent Bar of the United States, Member

Practicing Law Institute, Annual Program on Patent Litigation, Co-Chair

State Bar of Georgia, Member

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (1981)
  • United States Naval Academy, B.S., Aerospace Engineering (1973)
    with distinction

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia (1981)

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (1981)
  • Georgia Supreme Court (1981)
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2007)

Who We Are

Suite 2800, 1100 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA, 30309-4528
USA
t +1 404.815.6494
f +1 404.541.3194

James L. Ewing IV

Experience Highlights

Patent protection and licensing services for Equifax Inc.
Represents Equifax Inc, one of the United States' largest credit reporting agencies, in their patent related matters by assisting in obtaining more
Patent litigation advice for international investment firm
Advised an international investment firm regarding cellular telephony litigation developments and predictions. more
Smith & Nephew Inc. v. Synthes (U.S.A.)
Represented Smith & Nephew in a patent infringement suit against Synthes Corp. in the Western District of Tennessee.  After a three-week bench more
Biopolymer Engineering Inc. v. Immunocorp
The firm served as lead counsel for Biotec Pharmacon, ASA, a Norwegian pharmaceutical company, in patent infringement litigation initiated by patent more