Intellectual Property

Bartko Pavia delivers comprehensive and results-driven intellectual property legal services, leveraging decades of experience to protect and advance clients’ rights across industries. The firm's expertise spans the full spectrum of IP law, including trade secrets, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and technology licensing. From conceptualization through commercialization and enforcement, Bartko Pavia provides strategic guidance and robust representation tailored to meet the unique needs of its clients.

Bartko Pavia’s Co-Managing Partner and head of litigation, Patrick Ryan, has been recognized by the Daily Journal as a Top IP Lawyer in California for leading Bartko’s creative litigation tactics, while Ben Riley has been ranked by Chambers since 2019 as one of the top 20 California lawyers in Trademark, Copyright, and Trade Secret litigation.

What sets Bartko Pavia apart is their hands-on, high-level approach to every case. The firm invests in knowing its clients inside and out, offering personalized attention and a high quality of care. The firm excels in high-stakes litigation, with a proven track record of successfully trying over 100 cases to verdict before juries, judges, and arbitrators. Our attorneys are particularly skilled in handling complex disputes, including preliminary injunction proceedings, ensuring the strongest protection of clients’ legal and business interests. Bartko Pavia also leads in managing trademark and copyright registrations, prosecuting and defending objections, and negotiating and drafting critical agreements such as non-disclosures, licenses, and distributions.

Beyond litigation, the firm offers unparalleled expertise in anti-counterfeiting programs and enforcement. Bartko Pavia has developed and executed national and international programs to safeguard clients’ trademarks and copyrighted works, including high-profile cases involving ecommerce, industrial designs, and fashion. The firm’s ability to execute civil seizure orders across the United States, obtain damages, and secure injunctive relief demonstrates its commitment to protecting clients from counterfeiters and infringers. With a worldwide network of attorneys and investigators, Bartko Pavia seamlessly addresses global intellectual property challenges.

Bartko Pavia’s attorneys are experienced guides who help clients navigate complex legal issues simply and decisively. The firm’s deep technical knowledge, innovative defense strategies, and comprehensive IP management solutions ensure superior outcomes for their clients. Dedicated to both solving problems and achieving success for clients, Bartko Pavia is not just a law firm but a trusted partner in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights in an increasingly competitive global market.

Bartko Pavia provides unparalleled expertise in intellectual property security, brand protection, and supply chain security. The firm's globally experienced team addresses these critical areas with a hands-on approach, ensuring clients receive comprehensive protection and tailored strategies to meet their unique needs.

The IP Security and Brand Protection Group at Bartko Pavia is dedicated to safeguarding intellectual property and brand value across industries. The team’s expertise extends to protecting IP within corporations, mitigating risks in global supply chains, and implementing brand protection strategies against counterfeiting and grey market issues. This practice group stands out for its ability to combine experienced investigators, legal experts, and compliance professionals with direct, relevant experience in addressing these issues worldwide. Unlike conventional approaches, Bartko Pavia is one of the few firms that brings practical, hands-on expertise, partnering with internal client resources to conduct investigations in factories, channel partners, and with foreign governmental entities.

Bartko Pavia doesn’t just quickly respond to crises; it creates lasting solutions. The team conducts investigations, performs risk assessments, and designs and implements risk mitigation strategies that minimize or eliminate vulnerabilities. For clients dealing with trade secret theft, the firm ensures that companies are equipped to demonstrate the reasonable steps they have taken to protect their intellectual property. Bartko Pavia crafts solutions that provide proof of proactive IP protection, offering clients the edge they need when facing potential theft or litigation.

Bartko Pavia is uniquely positioned as a trusted global partner for IP security, brand protection, and the fashion and luxury goods sectors. With its practical expertise, strategic vision, and commitment to long-term success, the firm delivers exceptional results to protect and strengthen its clients’ businesses worldwide.

Bartko Pavia offers exceptional representation in patent litigation, combining technical expertise with strategic legal acumen to secure successful outcomes for clients. The firm routinely handles high-profile patent cases across the United States, including in well-known patent litigation venues such as Delaware, the Eastern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Northern District of California. Whether representing plaintiffs or defendants, Bartko Pavia’s seasoned team leverages its deep understanding of litigation tactics and advanced technologies to deliver results.

What sets Bartko Pavia apart is its hands-on, high-level approach to every case. The firm focuses on truly knowing its clients—offering a high quality of care and personalized attention to meet their specific needs. The patent litigation team excels in mastering complex technologies and translating them into clear, persuasive narratives for judges and juries. With significant trial experience and a knack for effective presentations, the firm has successfully litigated cases involving mechanical devices, software, biotech, wireless communications, mobile technology, computer security, and advanced hardware. Many of its attorneys have technical backgrounds and are admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, providing an edge in technically demanding cases.

We help clients protect their valuable intellectual property (IP), including trademark rights and copyrights, whether through registration, negotiation, or litigation against infringers. We also regularly defend clients against claims for trademark and copyright infringement. From up-and-coming startups to long-established companies and brands, to highly talented and successful sole proprietors, Bartko Pavia ensures the best protection for our clients regardless of the complexity of their situation or which side of a dispute they are on.

With a deep understanding of the laws surrounding trademarks, trade dress, and copyrights, Bartko Pavia takes a multi-faceted approach to safeguarding IP in today’s dynamic and fast-evolving market. The firm's seasoned attorneys have counseled numerous clients on clearing and registering trademarks, registering copyrights, and developing strategies to strengthen and maintain IP rights over time. When cases of infringement arise—whether isolated or widespread—the team's extensive trial experience ensures a decisive and effective response.

Bartko Pavia balances efficiency and focus to secure outstanding results across industries in both litigation and defense. Our litigators also know that companies sometimes seek to use trademark and copyright infringement litigation as a tool to stifle legitimate competition. Clients routinely turn to us to counsel them on and defend against such claims in an aggressive but efficient manner within the areas of brand logos, online infringement, domain name cybersquatting, artistic works, and even computer code disputes. Known for clear and compelling legal narratives, the firm excels at presenting complex technical issues to judges and juries, often achieving groundbreaking injunctive relief, favorable trial verdicts, and ample settlements.

Unlike larger firms burdened with excessive overhead, Bartko Pavia provides creative, cost-effective representation for all cases—big or small. The firm has successfully prevailed against some of the most formidable law firms nationwide and is recognized for being trial lawyers who think practically to achieve clients' objectives. Whether safeguarding an entrepreneur’s critical IP or ensuring a business withstands unfair infringement litigation, Bartko Pavia delivers results-driven service to protect and enhance the value clients have built.

Bartko Pavia provides exceptional representation in trade secret litigation and dispute counseling, protecting clients against misappropriation, negotiating trade secret disputes and, when needed, filing suit, enjoining and remedying trade secret theft. We help resolve disputes with precision and efficiency. The firm’s practice represents both plaintiffs and defendants in trial courts throughout the United States. Whether handling small-scale matters or high-stakes litigation, Bartko Pavia consistently delivers outstanding results with a focus on achieving the best possible outcomes for its clients.

Unlike classic big firm “litigators,” we are trial lawyers with a deep experience trying trade secret and other IP cases to verdict. Bartko Pavia blends deep technical knowledge with dynamic trial experience, supporting clients across a wide variety of industries and technologies, including mechanical devices, software, biotech, wireless communications, mobile technology, computer security, and computer equipment. Their trial lawyers stand apart for their ability to take complex technical issues, craft compelling litigation strategies, and present winning arguments to judges and juries. A testament to their expertise, an exceptional team of attorneys led by Patrick Ryan achieved one of the largest trade secret verdicts in recent history—$845 million for ASML in 2019.

What distinguishes Bartko Pavia is its ability to tailor its approach to each case and client. The firm understands that while some matters require aggressive litigation, others benefit from efficient negotiation. Their attorneys are skilled problem solvers who assess risks, pinpoint opportunities, and provide strategies that align with both immediate legal needs and long-term business objectives. Bartko Pavia offers the personalized attention clients deserve and the legal muscle that complex disputes demand.

Bartko Pavia’s ability to successfully go up against some of the world’s largest firms exemplifies our tenacity and quality of representation. By combining technical expertise, trial acumen, and commitment to client success, Bartko Pavia ensures the delivery of exceptional outcomes in protecting and enforcing trade secret rights.