Barry Irwin

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ABOUT BARRY IRWIN

Barry Irwin has been litigating mission-critical, high-profile intellectual property and technology matters in federal courts across the country for over 33 years. Barry began his legal career in 1992 at a prestigious boutique intellectual property law firm in Chicago where he focused on intellectual property litigation. Three years later, he joined the Chicago office of the top AmLaw 100 law firm. There, he practiced intellectual property litigation for 18 years, the last 14 as a partner, and the last 10 as an equity partner. In 2014, Barry founded Irwin IP, which has grown to over 20 lawyers and is recognized as one of the best IP litigation boutiques in the country.Barry has tried numerous competitor-versus-competitor matters for patentees and accused infringers before juries, judges and arbitrators. He has a track record of achieving successful results for clients, including 7 and 8 figure verdicts, complete defense verdicts where the patentees sought 9 figure damage awards, decisive summary judgment victories, attorney fee awards, numerous preliminary injunctions for plaintiffs and denials of preliminary injunctions for defendants.Furthermore, Barry has been lead counsel in over a dozen Patent Office review proceedings. For example, he successfully petitioned the PTAB to institute an IPR on a patent touted as the foundation for a billion-dollar-per-year business despite that patent withstanding numerous other challenges brought by others, including prior Patent Office reviews and several federal court litigations. Barry also often works with clients in strengthening their intellectual property portfolios to protect key products, including broadening existing intellectual property portfolios and securing rights to third-party intellectual property.In addition to his active litigation practice, Barry has been an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Law School since 2012, where he teaches Patent Litigation, Introduction to Patent Law, and Advanced Copyright Law/Entertainment Law. He has also served as an expert witness in intellectual property-related matters. He is a former Board President of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a former executive board member of the Linn Inn American Inn of Court, and former Vice Chair of the Burr Ridge Planning Commission.