Ian DiBernardo is chair of Brown Rudnick’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group and 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 and has successfully defended various patent owners against inter partes review petitions filed by Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. 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.
