Barbara N. Barath has over fifteen years of experience representing Fortune 500 and multinational technology clients in multimillion-dollar patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark matters.
She has successfully litigated disputes relating to a broad range of technologies 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.
Barbara is a seasoned trial lawyer. In 2020, she helped secure a $764.6 million jury verdict and $34.2 million in attorneys’ fees in a case involving the misappropriation of confidential materials and copyright-protected source code.
Barbara is also a thought leader in the trade secrets legal community and serves as Vice Chair of the ABA-IPL Trade Secrets and Interferences with Contracts Committee.
Barbara joins Coblentz's Intellectual Property team, which counsels and advocates across all aspects of IP management and litigation. Our team members have represented many of the world’s leading technology companies in their most important patent and trade secret matters and have litigated copyrighted source code and AI tool-related cases. Our firm has built a national reputation for successful copyright litigation for the music industry. We have also prosecuted trademarks and successfully litigated trademark infringement and domain name enforcement cases on behalf of clients in a wide range of industries before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the World Intellectual Property Organization, as well as in federal court.
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.
