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Jennifer Kash is a partner in the San Francisco Office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver and Hedges, LLP.  Ms. Kash's practice focuses primarily on intellectual property litigation, with a focus on patent and trade secret matters, as well as antitrust and complex civil litigation.  She also has extensive experience handling disputes for clients who are in the gaming industry and for clients who develop, license, or distribute software in a broad range of fields including telecommunications and Internet services.  In addition to California, Ms. Kash practices throughout the country and frequently is before district court judges in Nevada, Texas, and the Western District of Washington.  Ms. Kash also handles intellectual property disputes for many international clients, including clients located in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and China.

In the gaming industry, Ms. Kash represents Bally Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of gaming machines and systems, in multiple intellectual property disputes, including significant patent, trade secret and antitrust litigation.

In the internet services sector, she has represented several software and internet content providers, including significant representations on behalf of America Online, Inc. and many of its subsidiaries, Real Networks and Napster in patent disputes.     

In patent disputes in the telecommunications sector, she has represented Tegic Communications Corp., Motorola, Inc., as well as several other large cellular phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung and Sony.

She has represented IBM in a variety of matters ranging from real estate litigation, to hardware patent disputes. 

Obtained a complete victory at the district court level in Board of Regents of the University of Texas System v. BenQ America Corp., et al., representing twenty-seven cellular manufacturers and distributors (including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony and others) in a patent suit involving text messaging.  This case was venued in the Western District of Texas.  First obtained a bifurcated trial schedule, with the first trial focused solely on the validity of the patent.  While preparing for the invalidity trial, filed a successful summary judgment motion on non-infringement which resolved the case in Texas.

Part of trial team which was awarded a $9 million dollar jury verdict in a patent litigation brought in the Northern District of California on behalf of AOL subsidiary, Tegic Communications, Inc.  Quinn Emanuel was brought on as lead trial counsel less then 3 months before trial, and after settlement talks had failed to resolve the dispute.   Tegic's patents were found to be valid, infringed, and the jury further held such infringement was willful. 

Obtained a TRO and injunction in the District Court of Nevada on behalf of Bally Technology, Inc., a gaming industry client, against the largest provider of products and services in the gaming industry, IGT, for breach of a patent pooling agreement covering cutting edge gaming technology.

Obtained summary judgment of invalidity and noninfringement on behalf of Warner Music Group (Entertaindom.com) of the independent claims of a notable on-line music patent that had been asserted against hundreds of on-line music companies.  The Northern District of California Court also found the case to be exceptional and awarded Entertaindom's attorney's fees.