Patent Litigation

• Won a complete defense victory for defendant Intrado in a trial over patent infringement and indemnity issues involving telecommunications patents and their application to the routing of wireless telephone calls.
• Won summary judgment for defendant Roche invalidating three Stanford HIV test patents for obviousness, ending Stanford's multimillion dollar patent infringement suit, and won the case on appeal to the Federal Circuit and before the en banc Court on rehearing; won decisive victory in favor or Roche in the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Won a defense victory for Genentech in multidistrict patent litigation over Columbia University's recombinant DNA patent.  Columbia conceded the case on the eve of defendants' summary judgment motion on obviousness-type double patenting, giving Genentech and the other defendants a broad covenant not to sue on the patent at issue. 
• Won summary judgment of noninfringement for defendant Nike, defeating claims that Nike had infringed a rival's design patent with its AIR JORDAN XVII basketball shoes, and won the appeal to the Federal Circuit.
• Won partial summary judgment for defendant Monsanto in a patent infringement case over bovine growth hormone, eliminating half of the products at issue; case settled on the eve of trial.
• Achieved a nuisance settlement for Oracle in its defense of infringement claims involving messaging and routing software patents.
• Won summary judgment for defendant Fujitsu invalidating two semiconductor patents, and won the appeal to the Federal Circuit.
• Won post-trial for defendant Abbott Laboratories in a patent infringement case lost at trial by another firm, convincing the district judge to set aside the jury's verdict of willfulness and convincing the Federal Circuit to uphold that ruling, vacate an injunction prohibiting the sale of Abbott's HCV genotyping products and reverse and remand the case for a new trial on an invalidity issue; settlement followed.
• Achieved a multimillion dollar settlement on the eve of summary judgment motions for Borland Software, as declaratory judgment defendant and patent owner, in a suit over seven Borland patents on object-oriented software development tools and related business methods.
• Achieved a multimillion dollar settlement for plaintiff Clifford Electronics, on the eve of trial, against an automaker infringing its remote car alarm patent.