John Weldon Harbin

John Harbin has more than 25 years of trial experience in intellectual property and complex business cases, having tried more than 30 jury and bench trials in jurisdictions around the country, as well as several arbitrations.  He has litigated patent, trade secret, licensing, copyright, and trademark/trade dress disputes.  Mr. Harbin has represented clients from Fortune 100 to start-up companies, involving several different business segments and sciences, including computer hardware and software, telecommunications, aerospace technology, industrial equipment and processes, office (copier) equipment, medical devices, drug patents, and biotechnology.

Mr. Harbin has argued appeals before numerous federal and state appellate courts, including the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Florida Supreme Court, and the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Publications

• Co-author with Suzanne Smith Williams, “What’s the Fuss?  Patent Litigation and Reform Efforts Today,” The Atlanta Lawyer, (March 2009)

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, SEDMA Conference, on “IP Issues Facing Medical Device Companies,” March, 2012
  
  
• Speaker, AIPLA’s Spring Meeting, on “Copyright in the Quiver of Unfair Competition Claims,” March, 2009
  
  
• Panel moderator, 15th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, Dominican Republic, November, 2009
  
  
• Panel moderator, Damages Issues in IP, Atlanta Bar IP Section’s May, 2009 Springposium
  
  
• Speaker, 14th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, Mexico, on trade secret issues, November, 2008
  
  
• Panelist, “IP Issues in Employment,” Georgia State Bar’s 18th Annual Labor and Employment Law Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 2008
  
  
• Speaker, 13th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, Puerto Rico, on patent reform efforts, November, 2007

Memberships

• American Bar Association, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Section
  
  
• State Bar and Atlanta Bar Intellectual Property Sections (founding board member of Atlanta Bar’s Section)
  
  
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
  
  
• American Arbitration Association, Panel of Commercial and Intellectual Property Arbitrators
  
  
• Atlanta Bar Association (prior board member and past Chair of Litigation Section Board)
  
  
• Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, Past President, Board of Directors