Appellate Practice

• Won affirmance in the Federal Circuit of a summary judgment of patent noninfringement on behalf of Nike, after extensive oral argument on the impact of certain drafting conventions in design patent cases.
• Won affirmance of defense judgment in favor of Roche and denial of rehearing before the en banc Federal Circuit in a patent infringement and ownership dispute against Stanford University.
• Won reversal by the Ninth Circuit of dismissal of a contempt action brought by Mattel over violation of a trademark and trade dress injunction.
• Won affirmance by the Ninth Circuit of defense verdict in favor of Mattel, in an appeal from a trademark trial involving reverse confusion.
• Won reversal and remand for Abbott Laboratories in a patent case taken over post-trial, with the Federal Circuit affirming a post-judgment ruling setting aside willfulness, vacating an injunction prohibiting Abbott from selling its HCV genotyping products, and reversing and remanding for a new trial on invalidity.
• Won affirmance of summary judgment by the Ninth Circuit in favor of Mattel, in a copyright action over alleged infringement by Mattel's TARZAN dolls.
• Won reversal by the Ninth Circuit of a preliminary injunction entered against Kaiser Permanente in a copyright infringement suit taken over by the firm.
• Won affirmance for Chrysler Corporation on opponent's appeal to the Seventh Circuit from Chrysler's antitrust victory at trial.
• Won affirmance by the Federal Circuit for Fujitsu of Summary Judgment invalidating opponent's patents for obviousness.
• Won affirmance on the merits by the Ninth Circuit of Rule 11 sanctions award against opponent who filed a frivolous copyright infringement suit over Mattel's BARBIE dolls.
• Won reversal by the Ninth Circuit of a summary judgment against Hathaway Dinwiddie in a suit over construction of the United terminal at LAX.
• Won affirmance by the California Court of Appeal of a summary judgment in favor of Mattel over right of publicity claims.