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Practice Areas

• Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Entertainment and Music Licensing
• Commercial Litigation
• White Collar Criminal Defense

Bar & Court Admissions

• State of New York, 1981
• State of New Jersey, 2004
• US Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Second And Fifth Circuits
• US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, District of New Jersey, District of Colorado

Education

• New York University Law School, JD, 1980 (Law Review)
• Brown University, BS, 1977 (Magna Cum Laude)

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• - Section on Intellectual Property Litigation
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
• New York Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
• - Committee on Antitrust and  Inequitable Conduct

MAURICE ROSS

Partner

For nearly three decades, Mr. Ross has represented corporate and individual clients in numerous high profile, sophisticated intellectual property and commercial litigations. In recent years, Mr. Ross has served as lead trial and appellate counsel in high-stakes patent and intellectual property litigation involving major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Mr. Ross has also handled trademark and copyright cases for clients in a wide variety of industries, including clients in the fashion, media, entertainment, computer and software industries. Although he focuses his practice in the area of intellectual property, Mr. Ross has also served as lead counsel in complex securities, RICO, lender liability, antitrust, and he has extensive experience representing corporate executives and other individuals in white collar criminal defense.

Mr. Ross also has frequently been called upon to advise clients regarding the risks and benefits of proposed mergers, acquisitions and other transactions. Mr. Ross is also recognized as an expert on disputes relating to the attorney-client privilege and work product immunity, and he has been counsel of record in landmark decisions in this area. More recently, Mr. Ross has advised domestic and international clients concerning how to successfully and efficiently address the challenges and burdens imposed by electronic discovery. Mr. Ross has published frequently in the areas of intellectual property, patent law and the attorney-client privilege.

Mr. Ross has long been a proponent for using alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for efficient resolution of complex business disputes, at both the trial and appellate levels. Further, given the economic realities and costs of conducting complex patent and commercial litigation, Mr. Ross encourages his clients from the earliest stages of litigation to attempt to aggressively pursue settlement. By the same token, Mr. Ross has long advocated aggressive use of the pre-trial discovery process to improve his clients’ likelihood of success at trial, and in recent years he has focused extensively on how to use emerging technologies to make the pre-trial discovery process more efficient and cost-effective.

Mr. Ross has appeared in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the District of Colorado and the Northern District of California, and he has argued appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Second and Fifth Circuits, as well as State courts in New York.

Prior to joining Barton LLP, Mr. Ross was a shareholder with Budd Larner and practiced at Clifford Chance and Sullivan and Cromwell.