Mr. Baldridge is currently chair of Baker Donelson's Intellectual Property Group and concentrates his practice in intellectual property and technology litigation. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Intellectual Property Litigation, Patent Litigation, Trademark Law, and Copyright Law. He has extensive experience in patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, copyright, and right-of-publicity disputes.
Mr. Baldridge represents clients before many district courts throughout the United States and has first chair experience in numerous patent infringement matters, including patent infringement matters in Delaware District Court, high stakes trade secret misappropriation matters in Delaware Chancery Court, and trademark and copyright lawsuits throughout the United States. He has also represented clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He also represents clients on a regular basis in cancellation and opposition matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Baldridge advises a wide variety of clients, including publicly traded companies as well as mid-size and small businesses, start-ups, and individuals, and helps his clients obtain and maintain their competitive advantages in the marketplace through intellectual property procurement and through litigation. Mr. Baldridge also counsels clients on how to avoid infringement of the intellectual property rights of others and defends clients in intellectual property cases across the United States. Mr. Baldridge has been involved in numerous licensing disputes. He has drafted and negotiated numerous license agreements for patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights. Mr. Baldridge also has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating technology agreements. Mr. Baldridge helps his clients obtain and maintain large and small trademark portfolios in the United States and abroad as well as prosecutes infringers and defends accused clients in trademark, trade dress, and unfair competition litigation throughout the country.
Additionally, he helps clients implement corporate procedures and policies to protect proprietary and trade secret information from use by unauthorized persons and to avoid inadvertent disclosure. He frequently provides training for his clients and their employees on how to properly handle trade secrets of the company. Mr. Baldridge frequently advises clients regarding non-disclosure and confidentiality obligations and agreements, helping his clients protect intangible assets as well as developing creative solutions for clients on how to avoid breaching non-disclosure obligations.
Mr. Baldridge helps clients protect their creative works through copyright registrations obtained from the United States Copyright Office and through litigation. He also helps clients facilitate and pursue business opportunities related to their creative works.
In addition to advising clients on how best to protect and enforce their rights in creative works, Mr. Baldridge is involved in the music recording stratum and spends time in recording studios writing songs and providing engineering, production, and legal assistance.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Baldridge was a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Judge J. Daniel Breen of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.