Barbara Rowinska is an intellectual property associate in the Bay Area office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on litigation and counseling in the fields of patent, trade secret and copyright. She represents clients on matters implicating a range of technologies including computer software and agricultural equipment.
Experience
Representative Matters
Represented a global manufacturer of agricultural and industrial equipment as a plaintiff in a patent infringement litigation against two competitor-defendants. After a two-week jury trial, the jury determined that defendants infringed four patent claims, rejected all six of the defendants’ challenges to the patents’ validity and awarded client $16.3 million in damages for the first 2.5 years of the defendants’ infringing sales.
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable William AlsupUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California2022
Prior Experience
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2022
Summer Associate, SNP Schlawien Partnerschaft mbB, Munich, Germany, 2021
Associate, KRLZ Law firm, Cracow, Poland, 2019–2020
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Thought Leadership
Publications
Author, “Artificial Intelligence in the Law of the European Union and the United States,” IP Centrum, Intellectual Property Law Center, Poland, 2021
Memberships & Affiliations
Federal Bar Association
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2023California
Courts
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Education
University of California, Berkeley, School of LawJ.D.2023
