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A. James Anderson


Practice Groups

Experience

  • Practice focuses in the areas of intellectual property litigation, commercial property, and business interruption insurance for subrogation and coverage analysis/litigation, and general commercial disputes.

Selected Results*

Has concentrated on patent infringement litigation since approximately 1990. Illustrative cases include:

  • Representation of an inventor against a Japanese bicycle components manufacturer, a case which required six (6) weeks of depositions in Japan.
  • Leading the firm’s handling of a biotech plaintiff’s infringement case involving a pediatric vaccine. 
  • Defense of a manufacturer of combination exit sign/emergency lighting fixtures. 
  • Representation of the patent owner- medical device manufacturer in a case tried in September 2002.
  • Representation of the patent owner in a computer design/architecture case tried against a major PC manufacturer in June 2003.

Intergraph vs. Dell, Hewlett Packard and Gateway: Represented Intergraph Corp. in patent litigation involving microprocessor system design in a case venued in East Texas. Recovered a total of 440 million dollars in settlements as follows:

  • Hewlett Packard $141 million, with cross licenses;
  • Dell/Intel $225 million;
  • Gateway $12 million plus ongoing royalties;
  • AMD $15 million plus potential future royalty profits;
  • IBM $10 million plus a license to IBM’s portfolio;
  • Fujitsu $9.75 million;
  • Sony $15 million;
  • Acer $7.5 million; and
  • Other licenses

Recognition

  • Georgia Super Lawyer**
    Law and Politics
**Being named to the list or receiving the award is not intended and should not be viewed as comparative to other lawyers or to create an expectation about results that might be achieved in a future matter.

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Georgia Bar Association
  • Minnesota Bar Association

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia
  • Minnesota
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Georgia
  • U.S. District Court, Minnesota

Education

  • Rutgers School of Law (1971), served on the Rutgers Law Review for two years and served as Notes and Comments Editor senior year
  • Rutgers University, B.A. in English as a Henry Rutgers scholar

Books and Articles

  • Georgia-Pacific Swipes Clorox With Patent Suit
    IP Law360 (Mar 27, 2008)
  • Patent Reexamination Requests: High Stakes for Both Patent Owner and Alleged Infringer
    Intellectual Property Supplement to the Fulton County Daily Report (December 1993)

Selected Speeches

  • Patent Claim Construction Workshop
    Law Seminars, Atlanta, Georgia (April 25, 2008)
  • Claim Construction Litigation Strategies from Plaintiff and Defendant Perspectives
    Law Seminars International, Four Seasons Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia (April 25, 2008)
  • Discovery Issues in Patent Litigation (Panel Chair)
    Practising Law Institute, Atlanta, Georgia (November 5-6, 2007)
  • Litigating Against the Foreign National
    Trial Lawyers Approach to Winning Patent Cases Seminar (1998)

* Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and do not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.

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