Jason A. Barron, Ph.D., is Senior Counsel at McAndrews. His practice focuses on corporate intellectual property and patent protection. Jay helps companies develop innovative strategies and tactics for harnessing, managing, and enforcing their IP. Jay’s areas of expertise include patent and trademark prosecution, Hatch-Waxman litigation, competitive IP analyses, portfolio management, trade secret program development, and IP transactions.

Jay has both extensive in-house and firm experience counseling multinational companies, universities, research institutions, and startups across technology areas such as life science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, and material science. Particular areas of focus include imaging and diagnostics, inorganic and organic chemistry, immunoassays, pharmaceuticals (large and small molecule), analytical instruments, and medical devices.

Jay received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Cornell University. Before joining McAndrews, he worked in-house at a number of companies, including Acer Therapeutics (now Zevra Therapeutics), a start-up focused on developing pharmaceuticals to treat serious rare diseases, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, and Corning Incorporated.