Charles Barquist's practice is focused on business litigation, including patents and other intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition, and dispute resolution for technology companies.

In the intellectual property field, Mr. Barquist has represented several foreign and domestic companies in patent litigation in U.S. courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC). He has handled a large number of copyright, trademark and unfair competition matters on behalf of domestic and international clients, including a leading CD/DVD replicator, a Big Five accounting firm, a major telecommunications company, an airline, a major toy manufacturer and a number of Japanese electronics and food products companies. He has also conducted numerous adversarial licensing negotiations with patent holders in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. In addition, Mr. Barquist is experienced in other complex commercial and business litigation, including antitrust, products liability and environmental matters.

Mr. Barquist joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner in 1987 from the firm of Parker Auspitz Neesemann & Delehanty P.C.

• Represented eleven major retailers in litigation brought by Multi-Format, Inc. over DVD technology; complaint was voluntarily dismissed by plaintiff.
• Represented EchoStar Communications Corporation as respondent in a patent infringement trial before the ITC, in which the Administrative Law Judge found all patents not infringed and one patent invalid and unenforceable.
• Represented Altera Corporation in patent litigation in district court and the ITC involving programmable logic devices.
• Led a team that won a $35 million settlement in a patent infringement action in Minnesota for Angeion Corporation, a manufacturer of implantable defibrillators.
• Represented a major Wall Street investment bank in a securities fraud arbitration in Chicago in which all claims were dismissed.