Pryor Cashman LLP (www.pryorcashman.com) today announced that James R. Klaiber, formerly with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, has joined the firm as a partner and member of the Intellectual Property Group in the firm’s New York City office.
Mr. Klaiber specializes in patent law, including transactions, litigation and client counseling. His experience is concentrated in electrical and mechanical technologies with particular emphasis on telecommunications, high technology, e-commerce, and healthcare. Mr. Klaiber represents a wide range of clients, from startups to multinationals, and has held a lead role in many large patent litigation cases, trials, and IP-related transactions.
Mr. Klaiber has litigated a variety of patent cases before the U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including cases involving:
- Wireless and optical fiber telecommunications
- Electronic securities exchanges and financial transaction software
- Semiconductor design and manufacture
- Medical electrodes and prosthetic devices
- Plasma screen and cathode ray tube displays
Recently, Mr. Klaiber was sole Intellectual Property counsel for the bondholders in the Nortel bankruptcy proceedings, which resulted in the largest patent sale in history.
Prior to joining Pryor Cashman, Mr. Klaiber was a member of the Intellectual Property Group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, which he co-founded. Before that, he gained extensive research and development experience as a member of the 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 earned his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law while working at Bell Labs, and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and U.C. Berkeley. He is admitted to the New York bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Mr. Klaiber is Chapter Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York, one of the nation’s leading technology entrepreneurship organizations. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the NSF’s sensor research program administered by the University of Maine, and also the Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association’s Patent Committee.
