• Princeton University, AB 1968: First undergraduate to major in History and Philosophy of Science. Coursework included advanced undergraduate science and graduate courses, including Physics of Special and General Relativity, taught by John A. Wheeler. His senior thesis on James Joule’s path to the first law of thermodynamics was advised by Thomas S. Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

• New York University, JD 1974: Managing Editor of the Moot Court program; recipient of the Vanderbilt Medal for Service to the Law School.

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management: Created and taught "The Business of Intellectual Property" as an adjunct professor.

• Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Mediation Intensive course.​​

• Named inventor on 20+ patents and patent applications related to pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

• Serial investor in life sciences early-stage companies.

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• Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee. Founding Partner of the IP Department (1985), Chair of IP Litigation Group. Created and taught courses in Patent Litigation to selected Litigation Department lawyers.

• Advisor:

  • Rembrandt IP Management, West Conshohocken, PA – Private equity investment in patent litigation.

  • Altitude Capital Partners, New York City – Private equity investment in patent litigation.

• Partner: Pepper Hamilton, Boston:

  • ITC exclusion order litigation

• General Counsel / Board Member:

  • Velico Medical, Inc., Beverly, MA – Developmental/clinical stage medical device company, COO 2015-2018, retired 2023.

  • Extend Biosciences LLC, Newton, MA – Developmental/clinical stage pharmaceutical company.

• Principal: Barron Legal Services PC.

• Developed and Directed large strategic patent portfolios in the pharmaceutical and medical device spaces. 

• IP vetting and strategic advice for investors and patent owners.

• Contract negotiation – vendor, real estate, financing, employment.

• Negotiation and management of governments acquisition contracts with the US Biotechnology Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Technical University of Munich and others.

• Dispute resolution, arbitration, mediation and case evaluation.

• Vetting and contracting with potential investors and placement agents.

• Due diligence lead.

• Principal contact for outside litigation counsel.

• Compliance: Employment law, HR, wage law, and securities law.

• Developed documentation for employee stock plans.

• First chair or major role in 30+ patent infringement or technology-intensive trials.

• US Army: Infantry Officer.

• Social Worker New York City.

• Youngstown Steel, Foreman in the steel-making furnace department.

• United States Supreme Court.

• 1st, 2nd, and other US Circuit Courts.

• Federal Circuit.

• Numerous US District Courts.

• Massachusetts.

• New York.

• US Patent Office – registration number 29,512.

• American Bar Association (ABA).

• Federal Circuit Bar Association.

• AIPLA – Giles Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Judge.

• AIPPA.

• BIPLA.

• Licensing Executives Society – Former board member; created and taught classes on licensing negotiations, joint ventures, technology agreements, dispute avoidance and resolution, and IP law.

• Plasma physics

• Computer-controlled asymmetrical square wave welding physics and control circuitry.

• Jet engine design.

• Refrigerated air doors.

• Imaging.

• Plain paper copying machine physics and chemistry.

• Polymer-coated paperboard.

• Modem signal filtration control and other circuitry.

• Cell phone circuitry and software.

• Enterprise software.

• Paper-making machinery and chemistry.

• Contact lenses.

• Atrial defibrillators 

• Pacemakers.

• EKG devices.

• Pulse oximeters.

• Lasers.

• Multi-frequency antenna.

• Chemistry and metabolism of vitamins D3 and D2 (with Nobel Laureate Derek H. R. Barton as expert witness).

• Pharmaceutical uses of Vitamin D3.

• Therapeutic small molecule conjugates.

• Chemistry and physics of lecithin.

• Physics of emulsions.

• Insect control devices.

• Blood collection devices.

• Blood chemistry.

• Polymer molding.

• Video displays.

• Mass spectrometry, including Fourier transform cyclotron mass spectrometry.

• Dual-energy X-ray imaging.

• Optics data storage

• Aerodynamics.

• Fluid dynamics (compressible and non-compressible).

• Heat flow and energetics.

• Protein chemistry and physics.

• Pathogen heat attenuation.

• Security and baggage scanning.

• X-ray imaging, including dual-energy X-ray imaging.

• Drug and sterile packaging.

• RNA interference (RNAi) chemistry and physics.

• Electronic control of physical processes.

• Materials handling.

• Loss-in-weight feeding.

• Mining and excavation equipment.

• Sub-micron filtration.

• Biosynthesis

• Biocatalysis of difficult-to-synthesize compounds.

• Textiles

• Power electronics

• Electric motors

• Automated process control

• Batteries

• Navigation systems

• Weather forecasting software