John Bauer is the founder and principal of Bauer IP Law, PLLC – a dedicated intellectual property firm.

John is an experienced patent litigator with first chair trial and appellate experience before district courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has litigated a wide range of complex technologies and has represented pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic, industrial equipment, and telecommunication companies as well as universities. His pharmaceutical litigation has included both small molecules (Hatch–Waxman) and large molecules (biologics). John also has extensive experience before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), including Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Post Grant Review (PGR) proceedings and interferences.

John also has extensive transactional experience, ranging from advising clients on the strength of a company’s IP portfolio to providing clients with offensive and defensive strategic advice. John’s extensive litigation experience uniquely positions him to provide real world, practical strategic advice.

John is admitted to practice in New York as well as before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to starting Bauer IP Law, John was a partner for over 20 years in the IP departments of the international law firms of Norton Rose Fulbright US, L.L.P  and Mintz Levin, PC.

John earned his J.D. from the Catholic University Columbus School of Law in Washington D.C., 1986, and his B.S. in Genetics from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in 1982.