Henry M Sneath

Mr. Sneath is a Shareholder and Director at Pittsburgh's Houston Harbaugh, P.C. law firm and is a business litigation, IP and tort trial lawyer who has tried over 95 cases to verdict. He has been named the Best Lawyers in America 2026 Lawyer of the Year for Litigation - Patent. He specializes in business litigation, intellectual property, patent, trademark and copyright infringement, cybersecurity, data breach, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology law issues, employment litigation, products liability, industrial accidents, insurance coverage bad faith litigation. He is a Certified Mediator and Arbitrator and has served as a Federal Court Special Master in patent infringement and complex matters. He received his J.D. degree in 1983 from Duquesne University School of Law where he now serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law teaching Trade Secret Law and the Law of Trademarks and Unfair Competition. During law school, he served as a law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He has been designated by his peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in the fields of Business and Intellectual Property Litigation and is listed in 5 litigation categories of Best Lawyers in America: Commercial, Intellectual Property, Patent, Personal Injury Defense and Legal Malpractice Litigation. He was the 2011-2012 President and Member of the Board of Directors of the 22,000 member international lawyer organization DRI (Defense Research Institute), and is the former Chair of its Commercial Litigation Committee and Intellectual Property Subcommittee. He is a frequent lecturer and course planner for seminars on a wide range of business litigation, products liability, intellectual property and litigation topics. He is the Former Chair of the PBA Intellectual Property Law Section. He is Peer Review Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell and is a member of IADC, USLAW NETWORK, ADTA, ABA, AIPLA and PIPLA (American and Pittsburgh IP Law Associations).