James D. Shaurette - Principal

509.624.4276

JAMES D. SHAURETTE is an electrical engineer and patent attorney who has significant experience with the protection of intellectual property rights, including patent and trademark matters, in the United States and foreign countries for over thirty years. His patent practice is focused on electrical and mechanical technologies, and includes patent application preparation and prosecution, appeals and reexamination before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices. Jim has extensive experience with drafting, prosecuting and appealing patent applications for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, software, hardware, power systems, integrated circuits, networks, communications, imaging, the Internet, business methods, semiconductors, and mechanical inventions. Jim has personally filed and briefed approximately one hundred appeals in patent cases before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with a large majority of the appeals resulting in the allowance of additional subject matter for his clients. Jim's trademark practice includes searching and protecting trademarks in the individual states, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and foreign trademark offices. Jim enjoys spending his free time snow skiing, slalom waterskiing, backpacking, and kayaking with his wife and daughters in his native Montana.