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Todd Briggs is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.  His practice focuses on patent infringement and other intellectual property cases.  He has litigated cases throughout the United States relating to a wide variety of technologies including microprocessors, memory devices, wireless communications, semiconductor processing, computer networks, operating systems, communications systems, computer architecture, analog and digital circuits, data storage systems, medical devices, and high-throughput materials discovery systems.  He also has significant experience in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Todd is an electrical engineer and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Representing Samsung in multiple cases brought by Apple involving patent infringement, trade dress infringement, trademark infringement and unfair competition claims.

Represented Sony in a patent infringement case brought by Intellectual Capital Holdings Limited in the Eastern District of Texas.  Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement, which was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Represented Cisco and other networking equipment companies in a patent infringement case brought by OptimumPath in the Northern District of California.  Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement and invalidity, which was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Represented EMC in a patent infringement case brought by HP in the Northern District of California.  After HP sued EMC for patent infringement, EMC asserted its own patent infringement claims against HP.  Following a claim construction hearing and summary judgment proceedings, the case settled with HP agreeing to pay EMC $325 million, one of the largest patent settlements on record.

Represented Cisco against Huawei in a case involving claims for trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement and patent infringement.  After obtaining a worldwide preliminary injunction against Huawei that prevented the sale and distribution of router operating software, the case settled on terms favorable to Cisco.

Represented Palm in a patent infringement case brought by Antor Media relating to the downloading of media to smartphones and personal digital assistants. The case settled on terms favorable to Palm.

Represented Symyx in cases brought by Intematix involving trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement claims.  After defeating several attempts by Intematix for preliminary relief, the cases settled on terms favorable to Symyx.