Jamie is a highly accomplished attorney who has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of patents over the course of her career. She leverages this extensive experience to the benefit of her clients in the Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology Service Line at Shumaker’s Charleston office.
Clients turn to Jamie for well-informed opinions on matters such as infringement, Freedom to Operate, and validity concerns. During law school, Jamie became interested in design patents, discovering how underutilized and undervalued they had become prior to Apple v. Samsung (one patent at issue, USD618,677, only claimed the black front face of the iPhone using broken or dashed lines to disclaim all other portions of the phone). Using this technique, Jamie expanded her clients’ design patent portfolio by only claiming subtle nuances in the clients’ designs.
Although she always dreamed of becoming a doctor, after a short two-and-a-half year stint as a paralegal, she realized that she could apply her science background to the study and practice of law. Her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience allowed her to become a patent attorney, a profession of which she is proud and fortunate to practice. Even though she chose law school over medical school, she notes, “Patent attorneys are the ‘plastic surgeons’ of attorneys. People do not go to them when they have a problem; they go to them when they want to make something better.” Patents, like all IP, are a valuable piece of property to own, and Jamie revels in getting the broadest patents in the shortest amount of time for her clients.
Jamie is a member of several professional and community organizations, including the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts; ChIPS—Advancing Women in Tech, Law & Policy; Mensa—the High IQ Society; the Atlanta Bar Association; and the American Bar Association. When she is not fervently typing away at her computer, she enjoys traveling the world and experiencing the location as the locals would. Her other passions—golf, skiing, and snowboarding—stem from learning these skills early in life. Her parents also instilled the importance of faith during her early childhood, and she continues to be a devoted Christian.