Jim Klaiber is an associate in the Intellectual Property Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in NewYork, specializing in the practice of patent law. His experience is concentrated in electrical and mechanical technologies with particular emphasis on telecommunications.
Mr. Klaiber has litigated patent cases in U.S. district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit. Examples of the technologies involved in these matters include wireless and optical fiber telecommunications, plasma screen and cathode ray tube displays, as well as medical electrode and prosthetic devices. Mr. Klaiber has prepared numerous opinions regarding telecommunications and semiconductor manufacturing patents, and has also prosecuted patent applications involving telecommunications, semiconductor devices, displays, medical technologies, and business methods.
Mr. Klaiber gained extensive research and development experience while a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories' Murray Hill and Whippany Labs. He was the principal investigator for numerous high-technology telecommunications projects involving fiber optic undersea transmission media, and other technologies.
Mr. Klaiber is a member of the New York bar and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received his S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1986, his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1987 and his Master of Engineering from U.C. Berkeley in 1989. Mr. Klaiber received his J.D. from Fordham University Law School in 1996. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the NSF's sensor research program administered by the University of Maine. |