Jim Shay , JD

General Partner
Shay Glenn, LLC
San Mateo, CA

Jim Shay from the Shay Glenn, LLP in San Mateo, 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 starting his present firm, Jim was a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Before that, Jim was President & CEO of First to File, a developer of web-based software for patent attorneys.

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. Jim received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.S.E. from Princeton University. Prior to attending law school, he was a Patent Examiner at the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. Jim is admitted to practice in California, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and before the USPTO.