Russell J. Barron is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the Boston office.
Mr. Barron's practice focuses on the business of intellectual assets, and litigation involving patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and unfair competition. Mr. Barron has been involved in more than 200 cases in his 35 year career and is experienced in managing complex cases and in trying jury cases.
Mr. Barron's broad technical background includes scientific and medical instruments, biochemistry, automotive, aviation, computer software, data transmission and related technologies, electrophotography, forest products and paper, industrial chemical, mechanical, medical appliances, metallurgical, photographic, pharmaceutical, scientific instrumentation, polymer processing, computers and software. Mr. Barron wrote and successfully prosecuted one of the earliest software patents. (U.S. 4,460,975)
A frequent speaker and teacher at bar and business group meetings, Mr. Barron has been a board member and chairperson of several committees of the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A./Canada), including ones which focus on the teaching of IA management, congressional liaison and reporting standards for IA information. In 1996, he was appointed an adjunct professor at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he taught courses on intellectual property strategic management for several years.
Prior to joining Pepper, Mr. Barron was a partner with Foley & Lardner and a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He was past co-chair of the IP Litigation Practice Group and the founder of the firm's IP Best Practices (IPBP) group. He frequently wrote on IA management topics. This practice focused on the business of intellectual assets, including IA functional aspects of business organization, licensing, IA portfolio management, IA database development, IA tax management, IA valuation and identification of licensing candidates and targets.
Mr. Barron is a member of the Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin bars. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Seventh and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
