Professional experience
James McDonough's practice focuses on patent and general intellectual property litigation. James previously worked for the Centers for Disease Control in its Technology Transfer Office, where he worked with inventors on commercializing their technology. Before that, he was Director of Business Development at LBS Consulting, a document management software startup, and a Senior Systems Engineer at Cerner Corporation, a clinical software company.

James' practice also includes counseling start-ups and established enterprises involved in the development, distribution, licensing, disposition, and acquisition of technology and intellectual property rights.

Selected presentations
Speaker, "New HIV Diagnostic Technology," Georgia Life Sciences Summit (2007).

Selected publications
"Surviving MedImmune: Strategies for Licensors in the Aftermath of MedImmune," State Bar of Georgia Intellectual Property Law Section Newsletter, 2008.

"The Myth of the Patent Troll: An Alternative View of the Function of Patent Dealers in an Idea Economy," Emory Law Journal, 56, 189 (2006); Reprint, ICFAI Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, (forthcoming).

Bar admissions
Admitted to the bar in Georgia.

Additional information
Judge, Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition, 2008.
Judge, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, 2008.
Member, TI:GER Program, Georgia Institute of Technology (September 2005-May 2007).
Founding Member of the IP Section of the Atlanta Bar.
Burton Award for Legal Achievement (2007).
2007 Judge John R. Brown Award for Excellence in Legal Writing.
Mary Chi Davis Scholarship for Writing Excellence (2006).