Professionals

John Labbé represents clients in intellectual property disputes including patent, trade secret, and trademark cases.  He has broad experience in all phases of litigation from pre-litigation counseling through trial and appeal.  In addition to his intellectual property experience, Mr. Labbé has represented clients in antitrust, securities, and media litigation.  Mr. Labbé is also a patent attorney admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Labbé served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Algenon L. Marbley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  He graduated cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in 2002 where he served as the executive editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and was a quarter-finalist in the Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition.  His Law Review comment, Louisiana’s Blanket Primary After California Democratic Party v. Jones, is published at 96 Nw. U. L. Rev. 721 (2002).

Mr. Labbé is admitted to practice in Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.