James E. Malackowski, CPA, CLP

James E. Malackowski joined J.S. Held in March of 2022 as part of J.S. Held's acquisition of Ocean Tomo. He is a Co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Ocean Tomo, LLC, a part of J.S. Held. Ocean Tomo provides Expert Opinion, Management Consulting, Advisory, and Specialty Services focused on matters involving intellectual property (IP) and other intangible assets. Practice offerings address economic damage calculations and testimony; business licensing strategy and contract interpretation; patent-focused business intelligence; portfolio development strategy; litigation support; trade secret reasonable measures; asset and business valuation; strategy and risk management consulting; merger and acquisition advisory; debt and equity private placement; and IP brokerage. Subsidiaries of Ocean Tomo include Ocean Tomo Investments Group, LLC, a registered broker-dealer. J.S. Held assists clients – corporations, insurers, law firms, governments, and institutional investors – on complex technical, scientific, financial, and strategic matters across all assets and values at risk.

Mr. Malackowski is a founding and continuous member of the IP Hall of Fame Academy. He has been recognized annually since 2007 by leading industry publications as one of the ‘World’s Leading IP Strategists’. Significantly, Mr. Malackowski is listed among “50 Under 45” by IP Law & Business™; included in the National Law Journal’s inaugural list of 50 Intellectual Property Trailblazers & Pioneers; and, named as one of “The Most Influential People in IP” by Managing Intellectual Property™. Mr. Malackowski was named as1 of 50 individuals, companies, and institutions that framed the first 50 issues of IAM Magazine as well as 1 of 60 leading global Economics Expert Witnesses by the same publication in 2014. In 2011 Mr. Malackowski was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of less than twenty members of the Network of Global Agenda Councils to focus on questions of IP policy. In 2013 he was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame by the Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration. In 2018, Mr. Malackowski joined the Standards Development Organization Board of the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), Inc. governing voluntary consensus-based professional practices that are guided in their development by the American National Standards Institute's (ANSI's) Essential Requirements. LES standards are designed to encourage and teach consensus practices in many of the business process aspects of intellectual capital management.

On more than fifty occasions, Mr. Malackowski has served as an expert in the U.S. Federal Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, State Court, Court of Chancery, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and global arbitrations on questions relating to intellectual property economics including the subject of valuation, reasonable royalty, lost profits, price erosion, commercial success, corrective advertising, creditor allocations, Hatch Waxman Act market exclusivity, the business significance of licensing terms including RAND obligations, venture financing including expected risk/return, and equities of a potential injunction. Mr. Malackowski’s experience extends to matters of general business valuation and commercial disputes, both domestic and foreign. Mr. Malackowski has publicly addressed policy issues affecting international trade and has provided expert opinions concerning antidumping and countervailing duties imposed by the U.S. Department of Commerce as well as testimony on domestic industry, bonds, and remedies before the International Trade Commission.

Mr. Malackowski has substantial experience as a Board Director for leading technology corporations and research organizations as well as companies with critical brand management issues. He is the Past President of The Licensing Executives Society International, Inc., with oversight for more than ten thousand members in thirty-two countries. Mr. Malackowski focuses his not-for-profit efforts on organizations leveraging science and innovation for the benefit of children and students, including those located in lesser-developed countries. He has served since 2002 as a Trustee or Director of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc., an organization providing summer enrichment programs for more than 100,000 students annually. For more than ten years Mr. Malackowski served as a Director of Chicago’s Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, advancing the organization’s agenda to measure and report the impact of its pediatric research. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

Mr. Malackowski is a frequent speaker on emerging technology markets and related financial measures. He has addressed mass media audiences including Bloomberg Morning Call, Bloomberg Evening Market Pulse, Bloomberg Final Word, CNBC Closing Bell, CNBC On the Money, CNBC Street Signs, CNBC World Wide Exchange, CBS News Radio, and Fox Business National Television as well as other recognized news-based internet video channels. Mr. Malackowski is a current or past judge for the Illinois Technology Association’s CityLIGHTS™ Innovation Awards program, the University of Notre Dame McCloskey Venture Competition, the 1st Source Faculty Commercialization Awards, and PBS’s Everyday Edisons.

As an inventor, Mr. Malackowski has more than twenty issued U.S. patents. He is a frequent instructor for graduate studies on IP management and markets and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame majoring in accountancy and philosophy. Recently, Mr. Malackowski has lectured on the application of intangible asset valuation models to corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards, including the applicability of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to investment decisions. Mr. Malackowski is Certified/Accredited in Financial Forensics, Business Valuation, and Blockchain Fundamentals. He is a Certified Licensing Professional and a Registered Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois. Mr. Malackowski has been certified to receive United States Sensitive Security Information (SSI) as governed by Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations.

Mr. Malackowski was a contributor to J.S. Held's 2024 Global Risk Report.

Professional Affiliations/Memberships/Licenses/Training:

• IAM Patent 1000, 2023