Barry K. Shelton
Partner
Barry draws on his technical knowledge, engineering background, and over 20 years of patent law experience to assist clients in patent matters in the high-tech industry. His experience as an engineer, inventor and software developer is prized by clients, and his technical background in electrical engineering spans diverse areas including computers, processors, software, networking, and semiconductors. He represents Fortune 100 global technology companies, publicly-traded foreign companies, mid-to large-size private companies, and start-ups.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
Barry has first-chaired, led, and consulted in numerous litigations in multiple venues, including the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the United States International Trade Commission (ITC); the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); Federal District Courts in California (NDCA, CDCA, SDCA, EDCA), Texas (EDTX, NDTX, SDTX, and WDTX), Delaware, Illinois (NDIL), Washington (WDWA), Wisconsin (WDWI), Massachusetts, New York (EDNY, NDNY and SDNY), as well as international matters in China and Germany. He also represented numerous parties before the Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Panel.
Barry represents and has represented numerous high-tech, consumer product and financial companies, including Align Technology, AMD, ALE USA, Apple, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Dell, EMC, Ethicon, Freescale Semiconductor, Google, Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, HTC, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Marvell, Micron, Micronics, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Microtune, NVIDIA, NXP, Olympus, RetailMeNot, Rubrik, SGI, SigmaTel, SK hynix, Skullcandy, Starbucks, Tesla, VMware, Wells Fargo Bank, Xerox, and YouTube.