NEW YORK, NY– Venable LLP is pleased to announce that David K. Barr has joined the firm as a partner in the IP Litigation – Life Sciences Group in the New York office. Mr. Barr focuses on patent litigation, adversarial patent office proceedings, transactions, and counseling for life sciences clients.
Mr. Barr has litigated and tried patent cases in the federal district courts before both the bench and juries in matters involving small-molecule chemistry, therapeutic antibodies, cell and gene therapies, diagnostics, and medical devices, including Hatch-Waxman and biologics litigation, and has represented clients before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He frequently coordinates with his clients’ foreign patent counsel when their matters have international scope and regularly advises on and litigates trade secret issues for his life sciences clients.
