James D. Harper

James Harper is an Intellectual Property Attorney at Armstrong Teasdale LLP since March 2011, with a focus on patent law and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to this role, James served as a Partner at Senniger Powers for over a decade, specializing in patent application preparation, intellectual property counseling, and patent portfolio management. James has extensive experience in engineering and technology, having worked as a Principal Engineer at Mallinckrodt from 1987 to 2000, focusing on chemical process technology and regulatory compliance, and as a Project Engineer at Anheuser-Busch, where responsibilities included automation and facility design. Earlier in the career, James gained experience as a Process Engineer at Mallinckrodt and a Chemist at Sigma Aldrich, contributing to the isolation and purification of natural products. James holds a Juris Doctorate from Saint Louis University and dual bachelor’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia.