James S. Bullough

Jim Bullough’s practice involves the preparation and prosecution of domestic and foreign patent applications across a variety of technologies. Mr. Bullough has drafted and/or prosecuted hundreds of applications for inventions across a variety of technology areas.

Areas of Technology:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) related innovations, such as improvements in generation of and training of different categories and structures of AI models, implementations and applications of AI models across multiple fields of technology, and software innovations that utilize AI models in a variety of unique ways.
• Electrical and Optical hardware technology, particularly in the field of electro-optical circuitry, fabricating, packaging, and testing integrated circuits, as well as fabricating techniques and unique packaging that facilitate communication of electrical and optical signals between circuit packages.
• Cloud Computing Technologies, such as cloud-computing hardware, optimization of cloud computing resources, synchronizing client workloads, load balancing applications, distribution of workloads at different regions of the cloud, and various artificial intelligence (AI) applications implemented on the cloud.
• Wireless Communication Technologies, including unique antenna configurations, front-end circuitry, distributed wireless networks, digital signal processing, near-field communication (NFC), and analog integrated circuits.
• Other technology areas, including financial technologies (Fintech), social networking applications, digital marketing innovations, machine learning and neural networks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), online and virtual gaming, image and video processing, solid state drive (SSD) innovations, cooling systems, and other innovations.

Mr. Bullough’s practice emphasizes efficient navigation of the complex procedures and personnel of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to obtain quality patents having broad scope and enforceability without dragging out prosecution of patent applications at great cost to the client. Mr. Bullough has extensive experience interviewing hundreds of cases and developing positive relationships with patent examiners to better understand USPTO rejections and ultimately find the most efficient and cost effective resolution.

In addition, Mr. Bullough has extensive experience dealing with and successfully navigating pitfalls of 35 U.S.C. §101 rejections. Indeed, Mr. Bullough has dedicated a substantial portion of his practice to better understanding the law surrounding 35 U.S.C. §101. He has experience with both Examiners and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in overcoming difficult rejections.

Mr. Bullough represents clients of different sizes, ranging from international clients having robust patent departments to smaller clients that are exploring the possibility of filing patents for the first time. Mr. Bullough additional has experience in fast-moving startups with the goal of rapidly building patent portfolios in preparation for IPOs and litigation. In each of these cases, Mr. Bullough provides competent experience counseling clients in management of patent portfolios and making strategic decisions on whether to pursue patents based on a combination of business considerations, patentability, competing technology, and a future landscape of the technology.