Technology

Experience Highlights

• Entain and BetMGM, the second largest online gaming company in the country, in the successful defense of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Beteiro LLC. The decision was upheld in a precedent-setting ruling at the Federal Circuit, and will have wide-ranging implications for our client, the online gaming industry, and for future technology industry defendants in patent lawsuits.

• Adobe in multiple IP cases, including patent, copyright, and trade secret matters across several jurisdictions. We have successfully defended Adobe in numerous patent matters across e-commerce platforms and systems, electronic signatures, real-time animation, and other technologies. We also represent Adobe in the protection of its IP rights against infringers.

• Samsung in a litigation against a university claiming infringement of multiple patents relating to the interface between humans and devices, where the university asserted theft of the inventions (in addition to infringement) and sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. On the eve of trial, we prevailed on a novel issue of law and then prevailed in having the patent claims adjudicated as unpatentable.

• ​​​​Intel in its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security software firm McAfee; the transaction was cleared without a second request in the U.S. and with Phase I commitments in the EU. 

• Lutron Electronics Co. in many matters, including litigating claims in multiple U.S. district courts that various defendants misappropriated trade secrets and infringed patents, copyrights and trademarks owned by Lutron; representing Lutron in court and administratively on product liability and consumer products matters; advising Lutron on corporate acquisitions; and counseling Lutron on commercial and advertising activities.

• Yelp in successfully defending the company and three of its senior officers in a consolidated securities class action.

• ​​​​​Global technology company in numerous trademark matters, providing enforcement strategy and counseling concerning software, hardware, advertising, and mobile/telecommunications products and services, and representation in multiple proceedings before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board pertaining to its most well-known brands.

• Aperia Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of devices for commercial vehicles, in formation, venture capital financings, strategic collaborations, and other general corporate matters.

• Toyota Motor North America in its development of a hydrogen fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck that emits only water vapor and a pilot launch for drayage operations at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

• Fullpower Technologies, a developer of AI-powered sensing solutions, in its strategic collaborations with Serta Simmons and Tempur Sealy on a new smart-bed system; in a venture to bring the company's MotionX activity tracking and sleep monitoring technology to the Swiss watch industry; and in numerous other technology collaborations with Jawbone, Nike and others relating to an array of mobile applications, wearables, and other devices.