James A. Gale | Cozen O’Connor

James A. (Jim) Gale focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and counseling. He is a registered patent attorney with 40 years of experience and is Chambers Band 1 ranked in Florida, Martindale AV Preeminent© rated, Board Certified in Intellectual Property by the Florida Bar, an AAA Arbitrator and the former inaugural chair of the IP Board Certification Committee.

Jim has handled hundreds of cases involving patents, theft of trade secrets, restrictive covenants, trademarks, unfair competition, and internet disputes. He has appeared in over 400 federal cases in more than 48 federal districts and circuit courts, as well as handled hundreds of injunctions in over 35 different states around the nation.

Jim’s work and work ethic have always told a lot about his character. In 1989 his story was featured in The American Lawyer. An accomplished intellectual property litigator, Jim’s client list includes national and international high-technology manufacturers, as well as traditional brick-and- mortar clients. He was awarded the title of Patent Law Lawyer of the Year in Miami for 2016, 2017, and 2018 by Best Lawyers in America®. Jim was also appointed to the 11th Circuit Jury Instruction Panel to assist in drafting jury instructions for the recently enacted Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Jim has also served as an adjunct professor of trade secret and restrictive covenant law at the University of Miami School of Law and was also an adjunct professor of patent and trade secret law at Florida International School of Law.

Not admitted to the D.C. Bar, practice limited to matters before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Barry P. Golob | Cozen O’Connor

Barry focuses his practice on complex patent litigation. He is an experienced first-chair trial attorney with extensive federal jury and bench trial experience, having tried numerous intellectual property cases to verdict. Although Barry has represented clients at all levels of litigation in various fields of technology, including computer software, medical devices, office furniture, the Internet, insurance, manufacturing, LEDs and telecommunications, he focuses on consumer electronics and Hatch-Waxman litigation.

In addition to handling complex jury and bench trials nationwide, Barry has participated in all aspects of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitrations and mediations. In this regard, he has also developed innovative approaches and strategies to resolve significant disputes to avoid costly litigation.

Barry has led trial teams in more than 90 cases, many settling on favorable terms prior to trial. Barry has extensive experience litigating consumer electronic cases over cell phones, display modules containing pixel assemblies, point of sale machines, semi-conductor manufacturing, mobile security solutions for portable electronic traffic message boards, VOIP technology, and fiber optics. Barry also has litigated highly specialized Hatch-Waxman statutory patent infringement actions involving prescription pharmaceutical drugs.

A member of the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association, Barry regularly speaks around the country on various judges’ panels on mediation and settlement techniques, as well as best practices for successful trials.

Barry graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and earned his law degree from Washington College of Law of the American University.

I. Bringing TRO’s and Preliminary Injunctions in various types of intellectual property cases | 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

II. Trying jury and non-jury IP cases in state and federal court | 2:10pm – 2:40pm

III. Damage recoveries in Trademark, Patent, and Trade Secret cases | 2:40pm – 3:10pm