James Tucker Bradley

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James Tucker Bradley — patent litigation profile (in-house)

Side and role. Bradley is not a law-firm patent litigator; he is the in-house General Counsel and Secretary of Acronis, a data protection, backup and cybersecurity software company. His two tracked appearances are both as defendant-side in-house counsel in the same matter, Realtime Data, LLC v. Acronis (D. Mass. No. 1:17-cv-11279, and an earlier E.D. Tex. filing, 6:17-cv-00118). His practice is therefore exclusively defense-side supervision and strategy for an operating technology company, not NPE/PAE prosecution. Both tracked entries (General Counsel and in-house counsel) reflect the same engagement rather than two distinct roles or cases.

Technology focus. The tracked and verified matters are all software/IT: data compression and deduplication (backup and storage products), software activation and registration, and backup/data management technology. Realtime Data asserted U.S. Patent Nos. 9,054,728, 7,415,530, 9,116,908 and 8,717,204 against Acronis's backup products; Acronis's earlier NPE defense involved Uniloc's U.S. Patent No. 7,024,696 on software activation. There is no indication of Wi-Fi/standards, pharmaceutical, or mechanical patent work.

Notable matters and outcomes. Acronis, with Arent Fox (Janine A. Carlan, Jasjit S. Vidwan, Michael Fainberg) and Peabody & Arnold (Allen N. David, Elizabeth A. Houlding), defeated Uniloc's 2015 E.D. Tex. suit in 2017 after Acronis declined to settle and separately petitioned the PTAB; Uniloc agreed to dismiss with estoppel language barring further direct or indirect infringement claims on the '696 patent against Acronis, its affiliates and its customers. Bradley was the quoted company spokesperson on that result. In the Realtime Data litigation, Acronis obtained a partial stay in 2019 pending IPRs, then a stipulated dismissal with prejudice of all claims (including claims that could have been brought) in January 2024, with Acronis's counterclaims dismissed without prejudice and each side bearing its own fees — no merits ruling. Also noteworthy: in the related Uniloc fee dispute, the Federal Circuit in July 2021 (Judge O'Malley) was receptive to criticism of Uniloc's $250K "nuisance" settlements but signaled limits on awarding Acronis its attorney fees.

PTAB/IPR involvement. Acronis filed multiple IPR petitions on the Realtime Data patents (e.g., IPR2018-00703 on the '728 patent, denied institution; IPR2018-00706 on the '204 patent) and IPR2017-00301 against Uniloc's '696 patent. Bradley directs that PTAB strategy as GC, but the available record shows Arent Fox attorneys, not Bradley, as counsel of record in those proceedings — so he should not be described as personally appearing before the Board.

Background. Per Acronis's published bio, Bradley spent nearly 20 years as GC of software companies in the digital marketing and mobile industrial solutions space (company names not specified in that source; a separately searchable bio snippet referencing RightNow Technologies could not be reliably tied to him), earlier was an associate at Foley Hoag (real estate, banking, bankruptcy, accounting malpractice defense) and at WilmerHale (real estate development/finance), and began his career in audit and tax at BDO. He holds a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law, and a B.S. in Accountancy, highest honors, from Bentley University. Bar admissions were not reliably sourced and are omitted.