SPEAKER PROFILES Listed in alphabetical order by speaker name
Kari Barnes Kari Barnes focuses her practice on Intellectual Property prosecution and associated transactional endeavors. Ms. Barnes is proficient in domestic and international patent prosecution for a wide variety of technologies, including green technologies, message and devices for renewable energy and resources, mechanical devices, medical devices, electronic devices, computer hardware and software, and networking systems and protocols. She also has experience with intellectual property strategic planning, intellectual property-related due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, freedom to operate opinions, patent infringement and validity opinions. Ms. Barnes currently advises a large international medical device company on its intellectual property strategy, including creating and maintaining a foreign and domestic patent portfolio; offensive and defensive opinions regarding infringement, freedom to operate, and patentability; as well as assessing the intellectual property assets of potential acquisitions. She has prosecuted a large number of patents protecting stents, catheters, catheter placement systems, needle safety devices, ultrasound devices, urological slings, and other implants and delivery systems. She counsels small businesses and start-ups on intellectual property strategy and portfolio planning to protect an emerging market share or to retain and maximize intellectual property rights in view of joint venture research and development, and government grants. She has prosecuted a number of patents for these companies covering various technologies, such as storage area networks, remote access security and devices, beverage dispensers and holders, clean energy wood burning furnaces, pyrolysis systems, ratcheting pulleys, and laser testing devices and mirrors. Prior to joining Buchalter, Ms. Barnes was an attorney at Rutan & Tucker, LLP and Morrison Foerster, litigating and prosecuting patents for large companies involving toys, storage area networks, medical devices, DVD technologies, cell phones, and computer hardware interfaces, including touch screens. Prior to law school, Ms. Barnes instructed at the Colorado School of Mines’ Physics Department. As an adjunct professor, she taught undergraduate physics courses in mechanics and electromagnetism. She was also a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the optoelectronics department.
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2017 SFIA LITIGATION, REGULATORY & RISK MANAGEMENT SUMMIT
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