James McEwen
is Director and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Data Rights and Rotary
& Mission Systems (RMS), where he is responsible for providing data
rights-related advice and legal support to Lockheed Martin Corporation and
provides general intellectual property support for RMS. He focuses on
complex IP procurement issues, and especially in transactional intellectual
property licensing under the DFARS and international contracts, supplier
agreements supporting these contracts, Modular Open System Approaches, and
patent prosecution supporting commercialization of these technologies. Mr.
McEwen is a vice chair of the Intellectual Property Committee for the Public
Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association, is the Chair of the IP
Working Group within the National Defense Industrial Association, and is a
coauthor of IP AND TECHNOLOGY IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS: PROCUREMENT AND
PARTNERING AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL (2025 EDITION) as well as its prior
editions since 2009. Prior to joining Lockheed, he was a Partner in a
Washington DC patent boutique, and was a patent attorney in the Office of
Counsel for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division; and the Office of
Counsel for Naval Air Systems Command. Mr. McEwen is a graduate of
University of Texas (B.S. ASE) and George Washington University Law School (JD)
with honors.