Biography

Barry is an intellectual property lawyer specializing in the acquisition and protection of technology and business assets including patents, trademarks and copyrights. He prepares licensing, development, distribution and transfer agreements. Barry also provides opinions with respect to infringement, right to use, and availability of intellectual property.

His broad experience in a variety of technical disciplines includes computer hardware and software; mechanical, chemical and biological apparatus, methodologies and compositions; transportation systems; and metallurgy and fluid power applications. His computer-related experience further includes computer design, Internet-based applications, imaging, network and proprietary system design and implementation, software development and application, data manipulation, security and storage.

Barry's practice involves a significant amount of time in the litigation of intellectual property, computer and technology-related disputes. He also has significant experience as a neutral in alternative dispute resolution of intellectual property and technology-related disputes.

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Representative Matters

• Completed an infringement analysis of 7 patents and 132 independent claims in the field of secure data storage and transmission for a consortium of financial and retail clients.
• Prepared and prosecuted patent applications in such diverse fields as electron microscopy specimen preparation equipment; secure data storage, transmission and distribution; wearable physiological monitoring devices; powder metal automotive components and railroad braking and signaling systems.
• Developed licensing program and documentation for sophisticated pharmacological assay system.
• Successfully concluded patent litigation relating to magnetic material deposition technologies.
• Pioneered methods for compliance with electronic discovery for multinational Fortune 500 company prior to recent Federal Rule requirements.
• Served as Arbitrator in patent infringement dispute relating to silicon chip

Professional Affiliations

• Listed in the 2011 and 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Intellectual Property
• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Allegheny County Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Panel of Neutrals, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association

Background

• 1998  Metz Lewis Brodman Must O'Keefe LLC
  Chairman, Intellectual Property and Technology Group
• 1991  Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C.
• 1988  Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C.
• 1986  Buell Ziesenheim Beck & Alstadt