Barath, Barbara
Barath, Barbara
Barbara Barath is a seasoned intellectual property litigator and experienced trial lawyer. She represents clients in high-stakes patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark matters—as well as contract breach, unfair competition, and other commercial litigation matters. She has litigated disputes relating to a broad range of technology from semiconductor fabrication to USB, memory, communications, networking, cloud storage, two-way radio, mobile device user interface, mobile device management, data compression, spinal derotation, refrigerator water filter, and CAD.
She has over fifteen years of experience representing Fortune 500 and multinational technology clients, including Autodesk, Intel, Microchip, Samsung, VMware, and Whirlpool, in multimillion-dollar cases. In 2020, she helped secure a $764.6 million jury verdict and $34.2 million in attorneys’ fees in a case involving a competitor’s use of Motorola’s trade secrets and copyright-protected source code.
Barbara is a thought leader in the trade secrets legal community. She serves as Vice Chair of the ABA-IPL Trade Secrets and Interferences with Contracts Committee, speaks at conferences such as the AIPLA Trade Secret Summit, and participates in the Sedona Conference Trade Secrets Working Group.
Barbara maintains an active pro bono practice. She has taken to trial, or successfully settled, several pro bono cases involving unlawful search, use of excessive force, as well as NEPA and Wilderness Act claims. She represented California public school children in Ella T. v. California, a landmark education case alleging that the State failed to give them equal access to literacy, and secured a $50 million settlement for literacy instruction to 75 schools in California.
Prior to joining Coblentz, Barbara helped lead the Technology Litigation Group at Debevoise & Plimpton, was a partner in the IP Litigation Group at Kirkland & Ellis, and was an associate in the IP Litigation Group at Morrison & Foerster.
Barbara is admitted to practice in California, as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Eastern Districts of California, the Eastern District of New York, the Eastern District of Tennessee, and the Eastern District of Texas.
