FedArb Council
The Honorable William H. Webster, Chairman
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
(1970-1973)
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
(1973-1978)

The Honorable John S. Martin
U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1990-2003)

The Honorable George C. Pratt
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
(1976-1982)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(1982-1995)

The Honorable Charles B. Renfrew
U. S. District Court, Northern District of California (1971-1980)

The Honorable Ralph G. Thompson
U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
(1975-2007)

Judge James F. Davis (Fmr)

James F. Davis was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Howrey & Simon (now Howrey LLP) from 1972 to 2005. In 2005, he retired from Howrey and started a solo practice in consulting and ADR work. Prior to joining Howrey, he practiced law in Chicago and Washington, D.C.; served as a trial judge with the former U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C.; clerked for the late Hon. Giles S. Rich at the former U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; and was a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Davis was the founder and chairman of Howrey’s Intellectual Property practice group and has litigated cases nationwide in the Federal District courts, the Courts of Appeals, the International Trade Commission and state courts. His litigation clients included Texas Instruments Incorporated, The Mead Corporation, Litton Industries, Baxter International, Toyota, Nissan, Standard Register Company and the National Geographic Society, for whom he won multi-million dollar judgments and successfully defended infringement charges. He has also been active in alternate dispute resolution matters, serving as arbitrator, mediator and special master in both domestic and international disputes. He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law School from 1967 to 1968 and 1995 to 2002, teaching intellectual property/antitrust law.

Mr. Davis received a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1957 and a JD degree from Georgetown University in 1963. In addition to his litigation practice, he has written extensively in the patent and related law fields. He was Co-Chairman of two Judicial Conferences of the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in the 1990s and was Co-Chairman of the IP Program Committee of that Conference from 1982 to 2002. Before that, he was Co-Chairman of the Program Committee for the Judicial Conferences of the former Court of Customs and Patent Appeals from 1974 to 1982.

In the Federal District courts, he has litigated complex technology and patent infringement disputes before juries, judges and special masters. In state courts, he has litigated trade secret and breach of confidential relations cases. He has extensive experience in appellate work before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Since retirement from Howrey in 2005, Mr. Davis has arbitrated matters involving, among others, Alcatel, Nextel Communications, Texas Instruments Incorporated and JP Morgan Chase Bank, and has mediated matters involving France Telecom, Qualcomm, Baxter Healthcare Corp., Aventis Pharma S.A., Symbol Technologies, Inc. and Guidant Corp.

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