Experience

• • Successfully defended a leading consumer electronics company at trial in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff, a non-practicing entity, initially accused our client of infringing 14 patents alleged to be essential to cellular standards. At trial, the jury found each of the five remaining patents not infringed. The judge also refused to instruct the jury on the plaintiff's contract claim alleging that our client was obligated to license the asserted patents because they were subject to FRAND commitments.
  • Represented a leading consumer electronics company in a dispute that spanned the Northern District of California, the International Trade Commission, and several foreign jurisdictions and involved claimed-essential cellular patents. The issues litigated through multiple trials included antitrust and contract claims as well as defenses to infringement arising from participation of the patent-holder at ETSI.
  • Member of trial team in a multiple patent ITC action on behalf of three Fortune 500 technology companies. The ITC found in favor of our clients, terminating the investigation with a finding of no violation that was later affirmed by the Federal Circuit on appeal.
  • Represented a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips in Federal Trade Commission Part 3 litigation, where the FTC alleged unlawful monopolization of markets for computer microprocessors and graphics processing.
  • Asserted antitrust and breach of contract claims in the Northern District of Texas on behalf of a handset vendor arising out of a competitor's refusal to license patents declared essential to ETSI and IEEE on FRAND or RAND terms.
  • Member of trial team defending a software company in a four-month antitrust trial in state court on claims of overcharging consumers through monopolization.
  • Represented pretrial detainee in a bench trial of a Section 1983 suit in the District of Massachusetts challenging pretrial segregated confinement for lack of due process.