Jim Batchelder > Ropes & Gray LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ropes & Gray LLP Offices

THREE EMBARCADERO CENTER
SUITE 2200
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Jim Batchelder
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
https://www.ropesgray.com/en/biographies/b/james-r-batchelder
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
The intellectual property group at Ropes & Gray LLP represents a broad range of domestic and cross-border clients in all major patent litigation forums, with particular expertise in proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as well as the International Trade Commission. Steven Pepe in New York chairs the firm’s IP litigation practice group and is highly experienced in multijurisdictional patent infringement litigation. In Silicon Valley, Jim Batchelder represents tech clients in a variety of IP disputes, David Chun has experience litigating in district and appellate courts, and Jim Davis and Andrew Radsch are experienced in patent disputes relating to a broad range of technical fields. The group also includes Washington DC lawyers Kevin Post, who handles patent disputes for high-tech and life sciences companies, and Matthew Rizzolo, who leads the firm’s group in Section 337 proceedings before the International Trade Commission.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism