Wayne Barsky is a partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and is National Co-Chairman of the firm's 125-lawyer Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses on patent litigation for clients in the life science, pharmaceutical, medical device, game publishing, media, and social networking industries, and has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal courts throughout the country and in the U.S. International Trade Commission.
In 2006, Wayne was selected as one of the top 500 trial lawyers in the United States by LawDragon Magazine, named a national “Litigation Star” in the 2012 edition of Institutional Investor’s Benchmark Litigation Guide, and The Best Lawyers in America 2012, 2013 and 2014 recognized him in the areas of Litigation: Intellectual Property and Litigation: Patents. He was named 2011 Los Angeles Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year, and was singled out as a “superb litigator” in the IAM 250 Life Sciences Survey in 2010. Most recently, Wayne was named a Life Sciences Star in the Intellectual Property category of the inaugural edition of LMG Life Sciences, a supplement to Managing Intellectual Property magazine.
In each of 2008-2012, the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Recorder have recognized Wayne as one of the leading intellectual property lawyers in California. He has been named a "SuperLawyer" for each of the 2004-2012 surveys by Los Angeles magazine, is "Highly Recommended" as an intellectual property specialist in Global Counsel 3000, and is profiled as one of the state’s top IP specialists in all recent editions of Chambers USA and Legal 500.
Wayne is routinely called upon in high-profile cases, and has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in more than 75 patent infringement actions. For example, Wayne was one of the lead trial lawyers representing Stac Electronics in its landmark patent infringement suit against Microsoft Corporation pertaining to data compression technology, where Stac was awarded a record $120 million after a month-long jury trial, and a post-judgment, world-wide recall of Microsoft’s then-current operating system for personal computers.
