Experience

• • Successfully invalidated all 371 claims of 10 patents asserted against a major consumer products company in one of the largest IPR proceedings ever brought, thereafter affirmed by the Federal Circuit on all issues. Prior to obtaining a stay of the underlying district court action, also obtained summary judgment of noninfringement of all of the client's commercial products.
  • Successfully obtained reversal on every issue in a Second Circuit trademark litigation after being retained to handle an appeal of adverse summary judgments on descriptiveness, secondary meaning, infringement and validity, including an adverse award of more than $1 million in attorneys' fees, for a NYC-based digital advertising startup. 
  • Successfully resolved a major patent infringement case for a major semiconductor company after prevailing on all key arguments in claim construction in the Eastern District of Texas.
  • Won a jury verdict of non-infringement in a patent case in Delaware for Georgia and Illinois based clients who had been sued by a large farm equipment manufacturer.
  • Successfully resolved before litigation a major trade secret dispute involving aerospace engineering for a Colorado-based client.
  • Successfully brought and then resolved a trademark dispute between two hotels involving novel issues in Massachusetts federal court.
  • Retained one month before trial, obtained judgment of non-infringement in a patent case following a month-long jury trial in the Northern District of California for a leading smartphone manufacturer.
  • Obtained the first-ever jury verdict of patent invalidity (and noninfringement) in the Eastern District of Texas.
  • Obtained a jury verdict of trade dress validity and infringement for a Japanese manufacturer involving the design of an engine against a local company in the Northern District of Mississippi, having been retained the month before trial.
  • Obtained a jury verdict of patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalents for a major medical device company when literal infringement had been precluded by claim construction.
  • Obtained a jury/bench verdict in a trademark case for a major paper manufacturer involving the mottled design of notebook covers in a small upstate New York town where the defendant was headquartered.
  • Prevailed in a bench trial involving competing claims by two significant banks to the same trademark, even where the opposing bank had begun use of the trademark first.
  • Succeeded in obtaining a complete appellate reversal of a bench trial verdict against a major financial services client pursuing a trademark infringement case, despite having been retained less than a month before the appellate briefs were due.
  • Obtained dismissal, and affirmance of that dismissal on appeal, of all copyright claims against a large auto company involving its use of the Linux operating system.
  • Successfully defended a major financial services company facing the threat of a preliminary injunction for trademark infringement in the midst of a major nationwide advertising campaign.