Robert E. Browne co-chairs Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He represents clients in all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright and unfair competition law and related litigation before the federal district and appellate courts and the International Trade Commission, including obtaining temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions. Bob negotiates and drafts patent license, trademark, and merchandise licenses, computer software licenses and development agreements, publishing agreements, technology transfer and development agreements, and video and motion picture distribution agreements. He has testified as an expert on patent and copyright issues.

Bob is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, the International Trademark Association, and the American and Chicago Bar Associations.

Bob is recognized as a leader in the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (recommended in “Intellectual Property”). He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. (within Intellectual Property).

Bob was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1970 and the Illinois bar in 1971.  He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Trial bar), the Southern District of Illinois, the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits.  He also is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

In 1967, Bob graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S.C.E.   He earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1970.

• Wisconsin, 1970
• Illinois, 1971

• University of Notre Dame (B.S.C.E., 1967)
• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., 1970) Phi Alpha Delta