Jim Shay is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on patent prosecution and innovation counseling with an emphasis on the medical device industry. He has more than two decades of experience in life sciences and technology. Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Jim served as President and CEO of First to File, Inc. Prior to First to File, Jim was founder, vice president, and general counsel at Vertis Neuroscience, where he focused on intellectual property strategy. He was also a consulting entrepreneur at the Mayfield Fund, where he performed intellectual property due diligence on life sciences and other technology companies. Additionally, Jim served as chief legal counsel at Heartstream, where he was responsible for all general legal and intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution, major trade secret litigation, employment matters, and distribution and licensing agreements. Before joining Heartstream, Jim was a partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He also served as the first in-house patent counsel at Nellcor, Inc. Prior to attending law school, he was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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