Advising the provider of a music creation tool on potential patent infringement by various companies in the music creation space and the possibility of assisting with certain legal issues regarding music rights and royalties.
Represented Clinicomp as lead trial counsel on a patent infringement case where the Court denied athenahealth’s summary judgment and Daubert motions and had cleared the way for Clinicomp to ask the jury to award $150 million for Clinicomp’s asserted claims as well as survived Cerner’s inter partes review (IPR), and the judgment of no invalidity by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was upheld by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2021. The matter was settled in November 2021 on the eve of trial on favorable terms for Clinicomp.
Represented Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless in obtaining a complete defense jury verdict of no infringement on four asserted patents for defendants Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless in a patent infringement matter relating to mobile handoff and relay technology that was successfully transferred by the defendants from Florida to California.
Represents an electronic health records company in enforcing its patent for a remote healthcare management system.
Represented a network communications company before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in defending the company’s patent against multiple requests for inter partes review.
Represented Intertrust Technologies in its ongoing effort to enforce its basic patents related to data security and digital rights management.
Represented a statutory patent trust both at trial and on appeal in its effort to enforce fundamental patents related to video compression technology.
Defended Teledyne Technologies against charges of patent infringement related to wireless data links between an aircraft and the terminal. Helped achieve a favorable settlement for Teledyne.
Represented Northrop Grumman in its industrywide enforcement of a pioneering patent related to fiber optic communications. Helped achieve settlements totaling over $200 million.
Represented a global telecommunications company before the International Trade Commission (ITC) in a patent dispute seeking to enforce patents related to controlling the power transmitted by cell phones. Succeeded in convincing the ITC staff attorney that none of the three asserted patents was infringed and at least one was invalid, which led to a final determination of no violation.
Represented Unova, Inc. (now Honeywell) in a series of four cases against a total of 11 of the largest computer companies to enforce Unova’s pioneering patents on the smart battery management technology used in virtually every notebook computer. After litigating several of the cases to the eve of trial, helped secure nine judgments of infringement and validity and settlements totaling more than $200 million.
Represented Intermec Technologies (now Honeywell) in its enforcement of foundational patents related to radio frequency identification technology (RFID) against Symbol Technologies. Case settled after Markman briefing on very favorable terms for Intermec.
Represented small company Celeritas against giant Rockwell in a case for patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract on technology related to the cellular transmission of data over the analog cellular phone system. Obtained a jury verdict on all three counts in favor of Celeritas, which was affirmed on appeal, resulting in ultimate payment to Celeritas of over $60 million.