Joe Barich
President of BIPLG
joebarich@barichip.com
312-620-2471
Joe helps his clients grow their Intellectual Property (IP) portfolios, advises them on IP strategy, helps them monetize and enforce their IP, and defends them from attack by a competitor’s IP. During his more than 20 years of practice, Joe has worked with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. He has worked with companies in a wide variety of industries and in many technical fields including wireless and land-based communication systems and networking, computer hardware and software innovations, Internet-based innovations such as software applications and business methods, medical imaging and treatment systems, and consumer products of many types.
In helping clients grow their IP portfolios, Joe enjoys working with companies to develop cost-effective IP solutions that drive revenue and provide value while at the same time meeting the targeted needs of the client’s specific industry and products. In this regard, Joe specializes in developing and enforcing powerful IP portfolios that are typically centered around a patent backbone, but often include trademarks, copyrights, design patents, trade secrets, and license agreements to form a solution tailored to an individual client. In developing portfolios for clients, Joe has prosecuted over 1500 patent applications in the U.S. and other countries around the world and has registered numerous trademarks and copyrights.
In advising clients, Joe is often called on to evaluate the intellectual property of competitors, of potential acquisitions, or for in-licensing or cross-licensing. In this regard, he has prepared numerous invalidity and non-infringement opinions and has conducted pre-market IP product clearances as well as pre-investment analyses of corporate IP holdings.
In the enforcement arena, Joe has aided clients in numerous successful licensing/ litigation efforts yielding millions of dollars to clients, often based on portfolios that he helped create. With regard to defending clients, Joe has also successfully defended companies from attack by a competitor’s patents and other IP on many occasions, often based in part on the threat of the competitor being counter-sued using the portfolio that Joe had developed.
In the academic arena, Joe is a recognized authority on patent prosecution and has taught Patent Prosecution at the University of Illinois College of Law (CoL) since 2005. He also founded and directs an Intellectual Property (IP) Clinic at the CoL wherein law students prepare patent and trademark applications for inventors and companies that are referred by the College of Engineering’s Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC). Joe also serves as a Lecturer in the University of Illinois Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering where he teaches Engineering Law and and a Lecturer in the TEC where he teaches Startups: Incorporation, Funding, Contracts, and Intellectual Property. Joe also teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Masters of Engineering Management program where he teaches Engineering Law to practicing engineers.
Additionally, it was Joe’s great honor to establish the Barich Excellence in Patent Law Award at the University of Illinois College of Law in 2008. The Barich Award honors a 3L law student having interest and accomplishments in patent law, especially patent prosecution. Further information with regard to Joe’s academic endeavors may be found on his academic website at joebarich.com
Professional Awards And Honors
- 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- 2012 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- Patent Buddy® List of Top Patent Prosecutors (representing the top 2% of Patent Prosecutors)
- 2010 Young Alumni Achievement Award, University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Teaching Awards And Honors
- 2022 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Campus-level Award) (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2021 Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department Head Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2016 Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department Head Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Nominated for the 2015 Illinois State Bar Association Legal Education Award
- 2012 Alpha Pi Mu & Gamma Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award (Industrial and General Engineering student honor societies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2010-Present List of Teachers Ranked As Excellent By Their Students, University of Illinois Center For Teaching Excellence
Education
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1998
University of Illinois, M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1996
University of Illinois, B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1994
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Illinois.
Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Member of the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
President of BIPLG
joebarich@barichip.com
312-620-2471
Joe helps his clients grow their Intellectual Property (IP) portfolios, advises them on IP strategy, helps them monetize and enforce their IP, and defends them from attack by a competitor’s IP. During his more than 20 years of practice, Joe has worked with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. He has worked with companies in a wide variety of industries and in many technical fields including wireless and land-based communication systems and networking, computer hardware and software innovations, Internet-based innovations such as software applications and business methods, medical imaging and treatment systems, and consumer products of many types.
In helping clients grow their IP portfolios, Joe enjoys working with companies to develop cost-effective IP solutions that drive revenue and provide value while at the same time meeting the targeted needs of the client’s specific industry and products. In this regard, Joe specializes in developing and enforcing powerful IP portfolios that are typically centered around a patent backbone, but often include trademarks, copyrights, design patents, trade secrets, and license agreements to form a solution tailored to an individual client. In developing portfolios for clients, Joe has prosecuted over 1500 patent applications in the U.S. and other countries around the world and has registered numerous trademarks and copyrights.
In advising clients, Joe is often called on to evaluate the intellectual property of competitors, of potential acquisitions, or for in-licensing or cross-licensing. In this regard, he has prepared numerous invalidity and non-infringement opinions and has conducted pre-market IP product clearances as well as pre-investment analyses of corporate IP holdings.
In the enforcement arena, Joe has aided clients in numerous successful licensing/ litigation efforts yielding millions of dollars to clients, often based on portfolios that he helped create. With regard to defending clients, Joe has also successfully defended companies from attack by a competitor’s patents and other IP on many occasions, often based in part on the threat of the competitor being counter-sued using the portfolio that Joe had developed.
In the academic arena, Joe is a recognized authority on patent prosecution and has taught Patent Prosecution at the University of Illinois College of Law (CoL) since 2005. He also founded and directs an Intellectual Property (IP) Clinic at the CoL wherein law students prepare patent and trademark applications for inventors and companies that are referred by the College of Engineering’s Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC). Joe also serves as a Lecturer in the University of Illinois Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering where he teaches Engineering Law and and a Lecturer in the TEC where he teaches Startups: Incorporation, Funding, Contracts, and Intellectual Property. Joe also teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Masters of Engineering Management program where he teaches Engineering Law to practicing engineers.
Additionally, it was Joe’s great honor to establish the Barich Excellence in Patent Law Award at the University of Illinois College of Law in 2008. The Barich Award honors a 3L law student having interest and accomplishments in patent law, especially patent prosecution. Further information with regard to Joe’s academic endeavors may be found on his academic website at joebarich.com
Professional Awards And Honors
- 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- 2012 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Rising Stars on the Super Lawyers list
- Patent Buddy® List of Top Patent Prosecutors (representing the top 2% of Patent Prosecutors)
- 2010 Young Alumni Achievement Award, University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Teaching Awards And Honors
- 2022 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Campus-level Award) (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2021 Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department Head Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2016 Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department Head Teaching Award (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Nominated for the 2015 Illinois State Bar Association Legal Education Award
- 2012 Alpha Pi Mu & Gamma Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award (Industrial and General Engineering student honor societies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- 2010-Present List of Teachers Ranked As Excellent By Their Students, University of Illinois Center For Teaching Excellence
Education
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1998
University of Illinois, M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1996
University of Illinois, B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1994
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Illinois.
Registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Member of the bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
