Bio

Ian Dibernardo is a partner and chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. He is also co-practice group leader of the U.S. Technology group. His dual leadership roles reflect his decades of experience counseling clients throughout the entire lifecycle of IP, from creating worldwide patent portfolios, to bringing products to market, to licensing IP and technology, to litigating bet-the-company cases. Ian counsels IP owners in creating, monetizing, asserting, and defending their IP assets, and investors in sourcing, evaluating, and executing on various IP-centric investments. On behalf of IP owners and operating entities, he has litigated various types of intellectual property disputes, including patent, trade secret, trademark, unfair competition, and breach of contract claims. He has also been lead counsel in a number of post grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He frequently counsels clients on pre-litigation intellectual property matters, including issuing freedom-to-operate opinions, establishing “clean-room” and other procedures for on-boarding employees and managing forensic review of IT systems in connection with departing employees and addressing concerns of trade secret misappropriation. Ian has structured and negotiated a range of intellectual property and technology transactions, including patent, know-how, copyright, and trademark licenses, and outsourcing, cloud computing, supply, distribution, and joint development agreements. He has represented clients in a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and corporate finance transactions.