James A. "Jim" Coles - Lawyer in Indianapolis, IN

Mr.Coles is an influential leader in advising businesses on all types oftechnology and intellectual property legal issues, including patent, trademark,copyright, trade secret, intellectual property transactions, and intellectualproperty litigation. He has vast experience drafting and negotiating agreementswith intellectual property issues and resolving disputes involving technologyand intellectual property matters. He helps clients assess their intellectualproperty assets through consulting services and develop strategies forprotecting and exploiting those assets. Mr. Coles frequently assists local,national and international businesses with intellectual property issues in abroad field of technologies, including but not limited to electric andmechanical devices, medical devices, information technology, healthcare, andsoftware. He is the founder of the consortium of major Indiana-based researchinstitutions known as ATAIN (Access Technology Across Indiana). He hasrepresented the Indiana Court System and negotiated agreements for thedevelopment of software linking the various Indiana courts and other Indianajudicial agencies.

Mr.Coles frequently makes presentations on a variety of intellectual property andtechnology legal issues as well as intellectual property transactions. He hasalso instructed students and lectured entrepreneurs at Indiana UniversitySchool of Business, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Purdue UniversitySchool of Engineering, Purdue Research Foundation, Indiana University Researchand Technology Corporation, and Ball State University.

Heearned his J.D. from the St. Louis University School of Law and Bachelor ofScience in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.