David Barkan Named to Top 100 Lawyers by the Los Angeles Daily Journal

David M.Barkan, alitigation principal in Fish & Richardson’s Silicon Valley office, has been named one of the Top 100 lawyers in California for 2009. The Daily Journal, one of California’s leading legal publications, compiles the list of top lawyers in the state from thousands of nominations received from lawyers, judges, and corporate counsel. Since the list’s inaugural appearance in 1997, the honorees have consistently been highly influential leaders making a meaningful difference in the legal industryand beyond. The Daily Journal article noted Barkan’s extensive software patent litigation experience, his achievements in the ITC, and his prior leadership role in the firm as the Nationwide Head of Litigation until 2007.

 

Barkan was previously honored as one of the Top 75 intellectual property litigators in California for 2009 by the Daily Journal and was named a “Northern California SuperLawyer” in the field of intellectual property litigation by Law & Politics magazine for five straight years. He served as the firm’s first Nationwide Head of Litigation. Barkan has tried intellectual property cases before judges and juries in U.S. district courts, in the US International Trade Commission, and in arbitration proceedings.