Jim Shands is New Minneapolis Associate
February 15, 2012
SLW welcomes Jim Shands as an associate in our Minneapolis office. Jim is a registered patent attorney and has significant experience preparing and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications in a variety of areas, including electrical circuits, software, wireless communication, networking, and medical devices. Jim has worked with startups and large corporations on issues of patent procurement, patent prosecution, patentability, technical analysis, and strategic counseling. Prior to his legal career, Jim worked as an electrical engineer in the systems protection and controls group at Baltimore Gas and Electric, and as a test engineer at Motorola and 3Com.
