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Diane M. Barker, Esq. WHGC, P.L.C. 2570 West El Camino Real Suite #440 Mountain View, CA 94040 Toll Free: 866-970-0186 Phone: 650-209-1230 Fax: 650-209-1231 ContactUs@WHGCLaw.com


Areas of Practice ❚ Business Litigation ❚ Antitrust ❚ Competition and Unfair Competition


❚ Deceptive Trade Practices ❚ International Law ❚ Intellectual Property ❚ Proprietary Rights ❚ Contract Law


Bar Admissions ❚ California, 2006


Education ❚ J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2006


❚ B.A., Linguistics, University of California, Davis, 2000


Professional Associations


and Memberships ❚ American Bar Association ❚ California State Bar Association ❚ Bar Association of San Francisco ❚ Queen’s Bench


Diane M. Barker’s practice focuses on civil litigation in both California state and federal courts. She represents clients in a wide array of matters including breach of contract, patent infringement, business tort, antitrust, and unfair competition cases. Ms. Barker has experience in all aspects of litigation from pre-suit investigation to post-trial motion practice.


Ms. Barker has handled all aspects of litigation matters including case analysis (drafting internal persuasive and strategic legal memoranda), drafting discovery responses and discovery requests, deposing witnesses, attending case management, status, and discovery conferences, negotiating with opposing counsel, preparing substantive motions and sections of same (oppositions to class certification, demurrers, and motions to dismiss), as well as preparing motions in limine and procedural motions (motions to exclude expert testimony).


In addition to her extensive legal experience, Ms. Barker is a member of the Board of Directors and chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Homeless Children’s Network. In this leadership role, she works with the Executive Director and other board members to evaluate budget proposals and make strategic policy decisions.


Ms. Barker earned her J.D. at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and was admitted to the California Bar in 2006.


Publication and Lectures


“Defining the Contours of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: The Growing Body of Case Law Surrounding the DMCA,” Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 20 Berkley Tech. L.J. 47 (2005)


Ms. Barker’s Notable Cases: ❚ Represented multinational corporation against unfair competition allegations in the mobile wireless industry.


❚ Represented client against allegations of antitrust violations under Section 2 of the Sherman Act in the context of standard setting organizations.


❚ Represented client against putative direct and indirect purchaser class actions, alleging price fixing and claiming monopolization in the microprocessor industry.


❚ Represented a manufacturing company in the fire prevention and retardant coating industry against a competitor for defamation and trade libel. Court found in favor of client and awarded $400,000 in punitive damages.


❚ Representing a bedding company against a national corporation in the U.S. Court District of Massachusetts for patent infringement.


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