Richard D. Conard is retired of counsel in Barnes & Thornburg's Indianapolis office and is a member the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He serves several United States and foreign companies in connection with intellectual property matters. He is listed in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America' in the Intellectual Property area and is recognized as an Indiana Super Lawyer'.
Richard graduated in 1970 from Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) with a B.S. in electrical engineering. Prior to entering private practice he worked as an engineer in integrated circuit fabrication and testing, and on a corporate patent staff. In 1974 he received his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. Richard entered the private practice of intellectual property law in 1974 as an associate at the intellectual property law firm of Trask, Jenkins & Hanley in Indianapolis, and became a partner in that firm in 1979. He became a partner in Barnes & Thornburg in 1982 when the Jenkins firm merged with Barnes & Thornburg.
Credentials
Education
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, B.S., 1970
- Indiana University-Indianapolis, J.D., 1974
Bar Admissions
- Indiana
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Indiana Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana