James D. DeCamp, Ph.D.

James DeCamp is a founding member of Clark+Elbing and a partner since 2002.

James counsels clients in nearly all facets of patent law, including patent prosecution, validity, inventorship, licensing, litigation, and infringement investigations. He enjoys working with clients to understand fully their circumstances and to obtain practical commercial outcomes.

James handles matters in a spectrum of technologies including agriculture, life sciences and medicine, molecular biology, and pharmaceutical sciences. His clients include companies, universities, medical centers, research institutions, and academic inventors, from North America, Europe, and Asia.

Before joining Clark+Elbing, James assisted in defending fundamental human growth hormone patents for Genentech before the U.S. International Trade Commission while at Fish & Richardson.

As a scientist, James was a Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology at Harvard University. His research included work in the areas of plant developmental biology, plant storage proteins, chloroplast and nuclear gene expression, chloroplast transformation, and protein chemistry.