Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Joan Kluger has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department as a partner in the Delaware office. Kluger comes from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, where she served as co-chair of the Intellectual Property Group and managing partner of the firm’s Delaware office.
Kluger focuses on patent and trademark procurement and licensing arrangements, and also has served as counsel in litigation involving intellectual property. Among other technology areas, her practice has included patenting inventions directed to integrated circuit design, semiconductor device manufacturing, energy production systems, medical devices, chemical processes, videography equipment, industrial manufacturing equipment and financial industry software.
“Joan is a well-respected practitioner with in-depth knowledge and experience that is valued by clients in a variety of technology-based and other growing industries,” said David Powlen, managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg’s Delaware office. “We are delighted that Joan is now among several attorneys who have joined our office over the past three years and cover a broad spectrum of client needs in the IP area – including patent and trademark procurement, licensing, and litigation.”
Kluger has been active in a variety of bar and trade organizations, taught physics at the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College, and served as an adjunct professor at Widener University Law School. She earned her B.A. in natural science from Johns Hopkins University, completed her M.S. course work in physics at the University of Delaware, and obtained a J.D. from Widener University School of Law.
In addition to being registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, she is licensed in the states of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Barnes & Thornburg’s intellectual property attorneys work with clients to enforce and protect their intellectual property rights domestically and abroad. The Intellectual Property Department, with nearly 100 members, including 50 registered patent attorneys and agents, is one of the country’s largest IP groups within a full-service law firm.
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