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Practice/Industry Groups:
Intellectual Property
Litigation
Technology
Manufacturing & Logistics
Professional Services
Alan Ross is a partner in the Bricker & Eckler litigation group and the technology and intellectual property groups and is located in the Cleveland office. His practice emphasizes intellectual property – litigation, trial, acquisition, and licensing, internet law, e-discovery, and antitrust and technology-related litigation. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and is admitted to the bars of Ohio and New York.
Representative Experience
Represents businesses in patent infringement and trade secret litigation involving diverse technologies, including telecommunications testing, plastic film, computer monitors, bar code scanners, electrophoresis equipment, automated video inspection, electroporation technology, carbon infused plastics, vacuum cleaners, gyratory compactors, color reproduction equipment, control valves, hydrostatic transmissions, time release tablets, collateral insurance tracking, bridge weigh-in-motion technology, golf clubs, golf ball covers, and investment casting
Represents businesses in computer, copyright and trademark litigation, including numerous computer, architectural, and industrial design copyright infringement cases and brand name trademark disputes
Represents businesses in proceedings before the US PTO, patent prosecution in the mechanical and chemical arts, domain name disputes, and antitrust, including merger and grand jury investigations and civil and criminal litigation
Counsels and appears on behalf of numerous US and international businesses in a variety of intellectual property matters
Community and Professional Activities
Member, American and Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Associations
Member, Board of Directors, Near West Theatre, Cleveland
Member, Ohio State, New York State, and American Bar Associations
Certified Computer Hacker Forsenic Investigator
Former member, OSBA IP Board of Governors and Computer Law Committee
Former Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, where he received a DOJ Special Achievement Award
Former trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department
Founder/President of early Cleveland ISP
Publications
Authored numerous articles and spoken at seminars on intellectual property, computer, electronic discovery and antitrust law
Author, chapters in The Handbook on Antitrust Grand Jury Investigations (2d ed.), The Criminal Antitrust Litigation Manual, and The Antitrust Counterattack in Patent Infringement Litigation, all published by the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association
Education
Cleveland State University (B.C.E., 1970)
Cleveland-Marshall (J.D., 1975); Executive Editor, Cleveland-Marshall Law Review
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