John Biggers

John Biggers is a founding partner of B&O, with extensive experience in a range of legal matters. Clients value John's excellent project management skills. Clients appreciate John's responsive service and note his strong credibility in matters of technology law. John also has significant experience with international disputes and transnational transactions.

• Contract development and negotiation in the successful purchase of a $50 million electric power plant and development of agreements for sale of cogenerated electric power from a Delaware refinery to public power utilities in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
• Lead counsel for all technology licensing and much of the design, fabrication, and construction contracting for a $100 million dollar plant expansion in three refineries, both for efficiency improvements and also for improvements to meet requirements of the U.S. Clean Air Act.
• Infringement and validity analysis of the Talbert Engineering patents asserted against various members of the petroleum industry regarding production and marketing of reformulated gasoline.
• Infringement and validity analysis of Amoco patents pertinent to development of a resid oil supercritical solvent extraction process for a Louisiana refinery. Developed and negotiated the Amoco patent license.
• Developed and negotiated outsourcing agreements for a major oil company’s core financial systems, including SAP installations of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Control, and General Ledger.
• For Dynamic Business Systems (“DBS”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a developer of financial management software for Fortune companies, successfully negotiated development agreements and software licenses for multi-million dollar software transactions.
• Counsel for DBS in drafting and negotiating a contract with the Manville Trust for development of an extremely large software system for administration of asbestos-related personal injury claims.
• Lead counsel in total recovery from theft trade secrets related to a database for administration of an offshore oil field in the Arabian Gulf.
• Lead counsel for intellectual property due diligence in the development of a major petroleum industry downstream joint venture.
• Lead counsel for a major oil company in the successful development of a lease agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for land upon which to construct a 50,000 square foot aviation facility, hangers, work shops and office space, at the King Fahd International Airport in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
• Lead counsel in a successful arbitration under Islamic law of complex delay claims and extra work claims referred by a Dutch pipeline contractor in connection with construction of a gas pipeline 500 miles in length across the Arabian subcontinent.
• Lead counsel in a $100 million project for design, procurement, fabrication, construction and installation of an offshore gas-oil separation facility.
• Lead counsel in the successful assertion and negotiation of warranty claims against a Brazilian shipyard for design and fabrication defects in a $100 million jack-up barge.
• Lead counsel in a $200 million project for design, procurement, fabrication, construction and installation of a plant for manufacturing sulfur prills at Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
• Lead counsel in development of consortia agreements for a $300 million project for design, procurement, fabrication, construction and installation of a combustion gas electric power generation facility at Qurrayah, Saudi Arabia.

John is admitted in Texas, New Mexico, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and various federal courts. John holds degrees from University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Tech School of Law. John’s honors include a Texas Tech School of Law Scholarship, membership on the Texas Tech Law Review, and a clerkship with Judge Halbert O. Woodward, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1979-80.