Ballard Spahr, Robert Baron Make Managing IP Americas Awards 2024 Shortlists

Ballard Spahr’s Intellectual Property Department and Robert Baron, a partner in the Litigation and IP Departments, have been shortlisted for the prestigious Managing IP Americas Awards 2024.

Each year, Managing IP, a worldwide intellectual property news and analysis service, conducts extensive research and analysis focused on the significance of cases and matters handled by firms and individuals during the previous year. Managing IP awards recognize the most effective lawyers and firms in jurisdictions across the globe.

Managing IP recently announced shortlists in its Americas Awards categories, including:

• Ballard Spahr’s Robert Baron for Litigator of the Year in Pennsylvania
• Ballard Spahr for Firm of the Year for Patent Prosecution in the South
• Ballard Spahr for Firm of the Year for Trademark Disputes in the South

Winners will be revealed at an event in New York City on April 25.

Based in Philadelphia with a national and international litigation practice, Mr. Baron is a trial lawyer whose clients hire him to handle their most complex, high-stakes, and strategically important disputes. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, as well as disputes over strategic acquisitions, licensing agreements and other business transactions, theft of trade secrets, IP ownership, unfair competition, and false advertising.

With an epicenter in Ballard Spahr’s Atlanta office, the firm’s Patent Group offers industry-wide services in patent prosecution and patent portfolio development and management, as well as collaboration in transactions. Lawyers in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation and Trademarks and Copyrights Groups—for which the Atlanta office is also a hub—use the legal savvy that comes from extensive courtroom experience along with their technical dexterity and industry knowledge to provide vigorous advocacy for clients in IP disputes.

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