Jonathan Barbee
New York | jbarbee@hycounsel.com | (646) 389-4901
Jonathan Barbee focuses on challenging cases involving intellectual property and technology litigation. With a degree in electrical engineering, he represents innovators, inventors, startups, and major corporations in all types of disputes, including patent, trade secrets, trademark, and copyright litigation. He has represented clients in large and small matters across a range of technologies, from networking methods and solar panel manufacturing processes to pharmaceutical products and diagnostic medical devices. He has extensive experience in all phases of litigation, including commencing suit, discovery, motion practice, expert discovery, depositions, mediation, settlement negotiations, and trial. In addition to his deep trial experience, Jonathan also has substantial experience with investigations and litigating appeals, especially Federal Circuit appeals.
In achieving successful outcomes, Jonathan strives to provide his clients with the best service possible by building close relationships with his clients, maintaining constant and prompt communication with his clients, developing innovative strategies, and tailoring his case management and litigation style to his clients' needs and his clients' definition of success.
Jonathan also maintains an active pro bono practice, which has included First Amendment issues, representation of individual artists, employment discrimination, and a case involving cruelty to animals. Outside of the firm, he is on the board of Community Impact at Columbia University and the junior board of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club.
Prior to joining Hawkinson Yang LLP, Jonathan clerked for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then spent over a decade honing his lawyering skills at several of the best law firms in the country.
Education
New York University School of Law, J.D., 2011
New York University Law Review, Senior Articles Editor
Columbia University, B.S., 2008, Electrical Engineering
State Bar Admissions
State Bar of New York
Clerkship
Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Honorable Barbara S. Jones, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Professional Activities
New York Intellectual Property Law Association, member of the Trade Secret Committee
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), former member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
New York State Bar Association, member of the Executive Committee of the Corporate Counsel Section)
Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Pathfinder (2021), Fellow (2022)
Significant Prior Affiliations
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Kobre & Kim LLP
MoloLamken LLP