Wayne Barsky is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and is National Co-Chairman of the firm's 125-lawyer Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses on patent litigation for clients in the biotechnology, computer and software industries, and has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal courts throughout the country and the U.S. International Trade Commission.
In 2006, Wayne was selected as one of the top 500 trial lawyers in the United States by LawDragon, and was selected in 2005 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the top 30 intellectual property lawyers in California. He was named a "SuperLawyer" in 2004-2007 by Los Angeles magazine, and has been named in multiple editions of Who's Who in American Law. Wayne was profiled by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2006 for his intellectual property and biotechnology expertise, and in 2007 was named among "The Best of the Bar" for intellectual property by the same publication. He is listed as "Highly Recommended" as an intellectual property specialist by both Global Counsel 3000 and the Practical Law Company, and is profiled as one of the state's top IP specialists in the 2005-2006 editions of Chambers USA. Wayne was also profiled in California Law Business as one of the leading lawyers in California under the age of 40 (regrettably, he is no longer in that age category).
Wayne routinely works on high-profile cases. For example, Wayne was a principal trial lawyer representing Stac Electronics in its landmark patent infringement suit against Microsoft Corporation pertaining to data compression technology, where Stac was awarded a record $120 million after a month-long jury trial, and a post-judgment, world-wide recall of Microsoft's then-current operating system. Other representative engagements include:
In Re Certain Semiconductor Chips with Minimized Chip Package Size and Products Containing Same (representing Tessera Inc. in this ITC action against Motorola, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, Spansion, and ATI Technologies, alleging infringement of certain semiconductor patents);
American Video Graphics v. Electronic Arts, Sega, Atari, et al. (defense of EA, Sega, Atari, LucasArts, Vivendi, and other major electronic publishers in software patent litigation brought in the Eastern District of Texas, asserting infringement by more than 1,000 game titles representing more than a billion dollars in revenue);
- In Re Columbia University Patent Litigation (representation of Columbia in patent litigation against Amgen and Immunex pertaining to a portfolio relating to the genetic co-transformation of mammalian cells);
- Israel Bio-Engineering Project v. Amgen, Immunex, et al. (representation of Serono, the world's third-largest biotechnology company, in patent litigation pertaining to tumor necrosis factor binding proteins);
- Stanford University and Litton Systems v. Nortel Networks (defense of Nortel in patent litigation pertaining to fiber optic amplifiers);
- General Electric Medical Systems v. Resonance Technology (representation of GE in patent litigation pertaining to magnetic resonance imaging);
- Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon v. Inamed Corporation (representation of J&J and Ethicon in patent litigation against Inamed pertaining to bariatric surgical devices and methods); and
- NEC Corporation v. E-Machines, Inc., et al. (representation of NEC in patent litigation pertaining to VGA graphics and memory management).
Wayne is a frequent lecturer at PLI and other professional conferences on patent litigation, has chaired the National Intellectual Property Institute for the Corporate Counsel Institute, and is on the Executive Committee of the USC Intellectual Property Institute.
Wayne is active in community and pro bono affairs. He is the incoming Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Public Counsel Law Center, the nation's largest pro bono law office. Wayne served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and as a Judge Pro Tempore in the Los Angeles Superior Court system. Wayne received a California State Bar Commendation for his community service and pro bono activities, and is currently representing the City of Los Angeles in litigation against the federal government pertaining to the government's undercount of homeless residents in the City during the 2000 Census.
Wayne received his J.D. in 1983 from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He earned a B.A. in 1979 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a member of the District of Columbia, California and Missouri state bar associations, as well as the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the AIPLA, and the LAIPLA. Wayne is admitted to practice in all California federal and state courts, and is a member of the bar of the United States Courts of Appeal for the Federal, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits.