Corey Bauer handles complex civil litigation and trials, with core practice areas in commercial and intellectual property litigation. He has broad experience leading litigation teams in trade secret, trademark, copyright, breach of contract, and other commercial disputes across the country. His extensive advocacy experience includes first and second-chair jury trials, first-chair arbitration, and numerous oral arguments and hearings before trial and appellate courts. He has taken and defended close to 100 depositions of fact and expert witnesses.
- Defended one of America’s largest steel and aluminum producers in a trade secret, conspiracy, and breach of contract suit, wherein the client was completely vindicated of all trade secret misappropriation and prevailed on counterclaims at summary judgment.
- Defended a major video streaming service in a copyright infringement lawsuit, successfully obtaining the dismissal of the copyright claims via a Motion to Dismiss on Fair Use grounds.
- Represented a Dept. of Energy government contractor in defense of patent infringement claims resulting in a favorable settlement.
- Represented real estate company in pre-litigation trade secret misappropriation investigation resulting in a favorable pre-litigation settlement and complete protection of trade secrets.
- Represented a large Washington D.C. engineering firm in the litigation of, and favorable re-negotiation of, a multi-million-dollar default judgment and loan agreement.
- Represented a large Pittsburgh-area municipality at trial before a Board of Commissioners (second chair) involving a boundary dispute over the recently built Shell Cracker Plant with tens of millions of dollars of tax revenue at issue and obtained a winning judgment.
- Defended an Air Force veteran in what is believed to be Pennsylvania’s first UAS-related felony jury trial in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (as solo trial counsel). After a week-long jury trial that focused on forensically extracted UAS data, the case resulted in the dismissal and acquittal of 12 misdemeanors and felonies.
- Author, Artificial Intelligence and Trade Secret Protection: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship If Proper Safeguards Are Met, For The Defense Magazine, Defense Research Institute, March 2024
- Author, Defending Against Employee Defection: The Intersectionality of Cybersecurity and Trade Secret Protections in the Digital Age, The Licensing Journal, Wolters Kluwer Legal and Regulatory, February 2024
- Author, Copyright Infringement or a Work of Fiction?: The Curious Case of Larson v. Perry, Point of Law, Allegheny County Bar Association, Winter 2022
- Author, Drone Crimes: A New Frontier in Criminal Defense, The Champion Magazine, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, November 2020
- Author, How the Coronavirus Affects Contracts With Force Majeure Clauses in Pennsylvania Courts, Point of Law, Allegheny County Bar Association, Summer 2020
- Author, The New Road to Municipal Workplace Safety, The Authority Magazine, The Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association, February 2020
- Author, What You Need to Know About Pennsylvania Drone Crimes, The Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine, The Pennsylvania Bar Association, March 2020
- Author, Peeping Drones: Uncertainty in the UAV World After ACT 78, Point of Law, Allegheny County Bar Association, Summer 2019
- Author, The Law’s Blind Eye Toward Injustice: Why Lawyers Sometimes Allow Wrongful Convictions, Point of Law, Allegheny County Bar Association, Winter 2019
- Speaker, Amendments to the Defend Trade Secrets Act and Uniform Trade Secrets Act: Combating Late Identification Issues, The Defense Research Institute, March 2025
- Speaker, AI Generated Trade Secret Litigation, MyLawCLE, March 2025
- Speaker, AI and the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA): Investigating and Litigating Stolen IP, The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, November 2024
- Speaker, AI and the Law: Current Applications and Ethical Implications, The Allegheny County Bar Association, September 2024
- Speaker, The Legal Landscape of UAS/UAV Technology, 75th Innovation Command Legal Conference, Army National Guard, June 2024
- Speaker, Tips for Winning Discovery Disputes Involving ESI, Defense Research Institute Online, July 2023
- Speaker, Protecting Yourself and Your Client by Identifying and Preserving Digital Information from Day One of a Dispute, Defense Research Institute Online, May 2023
- Speaker, A Night at The Science Center: Criminal Procedure for the Non-Criminal Lawyer, The Allegheny County Bar Association, February 2020
- Speaker, Drone Laws: The Imminent Quandary, The American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting, February 2020
- Speaker, Constitutional Rights in the Digital Age: Is There an App for That?, The Allegheny County Bar Association, August 2019
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- Wyoming
- U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming
- U.S. District Court, Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships
- Defense Research Institute, Intellectual Property Litigation Committee Trade Secret Chair, 2024-present
Community Involvement
- Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Member
Education
- J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2017
- William H. Eckert Award for Superior Upper-Level Writing
- ABA Employment Section National Mock Trial Finalist
- B.A., Kent State University, 2014
Honors
- Best Lawyers® “Ones to Watch” distinction in Commercial Litigation, 2023-2025, and Litigation – Patent, 2024-2025
- Super Lawyers® “Rising Star” distinction in Business Litigation, 2020-2025