Robert J. Yarbrough
Lipton, Weinberger & Husick
I have practiced law for thirty years. I specialize in business and patent law, particularly patent prosecution and helping clients protect their inventions.
I am a patent attorney licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and hold a degree in mechanical engineering. I am a partner in the law firm of Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, a specialty intellectual property law firm based in Southeastern Pennsylvania. I also am an environmental attorney licensed in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. In environmental matters, I am counsel to Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP, a top-100 firm of over six hundred lawyers with offices in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Princeton, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
I opened my patent law office in 1998 and have practiced patent law from that time to the present. I worked in the Environmental Practice Group of Drinker, Biddle & Reath from 1996 until 1998 and in the Environmental Department of Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman & Cohen, a Philadelphia regional firm, from 1989 through 1995. I enforced environmental laws for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1977 through 1988.
- Intellectual Property
- Patents
- Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution
- Kentucky
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Partner
- Lipton, Weinberger & Husick
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- I am a partner in Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, an intellectual property boutique firm located in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
- Attorney
- Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP
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- For environmental matters, I am counsel to this top-100 law firm. From January 1996 through January 1998, I was employed in the environmental practice group.
- Owner
- Robert J. Yarbrough, Attorney at Law
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- I operated a solo patent law office.
- Attorney
- Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman & Cohen
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- I worked in the environmental department of this Philadelphia regional firm on a variety of environmental issues.
- Managing attorney
- Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet
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- I enforced air pollution, water pollution, solid waste and coal mining laws for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
- University of Kentucky College of Law
- J.D. | Law
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- University of Kentucky
- B.S. | Mechanical Engineering
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- Honors: Pi Tau Sigma, mechanical engineering honorary
- University of Louisville
- Mechanical Engineering
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- Honors: Attended Speed Scientific School
- Chairman, Pennsylvania Intellectual Property Forum
- Chairman
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- Activities: The PA IP Forum is an organization of patent and intellectual property attorneys. The focus of the organization is education and advocacy for small business and individual inventors.
- Delaware County Bar Association
- Chairman, Intellectual Property Committee
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- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Legislation Co-Chair, Environmental Law Committee
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- Patent Remedies without going to Court
- PA IP Forum
- Inducement of Infringement
- PA IP Forum
- Deferred Examination of Patent Applications
- PA IP Forum
- Registered Practitioner
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Website
- Website