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Victoria Maroulis is a partner in the Silicon Valley Office.  Mrs. Maroulis' practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. She has litigated and provided counseling for companies on a broad range of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets matters.  She has litigated a number of significant patent cases, including multi-party and MDL cases for such clients as General Electric, Cisco, Oracle, Genentech, and Monsanto.  She has extensive experience in managing complex patent litigation in a variety of technologies including software, hardware, semiconductors, medical devices and biotechnology.  She has chaired bench and jury trials and argued several appeals.  She is a member of the bars of New York and California and is admitted to the Eastern District of Texas, Trial Bar of the Northern District of Illinois, and Federal Circuit.  Victoria is an active member of the local legal community.  She regularly lectures on IP matters, judges local law schools' mock trial competition, and has taught trial practice at the in house Quinn Emanuel program and the ABA trial training for legal aid attorneys.

In the fields of Biotechnology and Medical Devices, she has represented companies such as Genentech, Monsanto and GE Healthcare.

In the Software, Hardware, Networking and Semiconductors fields, she has represented AOL, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, Borland Software and Macrovision.

Represented twenty-three cell phone manufacturers – including Motorola, Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson – accused by the University of Texas of infringing a patent relating to text messaging using Touch-Tone telephones. The University alleged that the manufacturers infringed its patent by incorporating predictive text messaging software into over 400 models of cell phones. Several defendants – not represented by our firm – settled identical claims for $3.27 for each cell phone sold in the United States. The potential liability to the clients therefore approached $2 billion.

Represented Genentech in a multi-district patent litigation concerning recombinant DNA technology and the process of co-transformation to produce proteins in mammalian cells.  Obtained a broad covenant not to sue, and by agreeing to the covenant, the patentee permanently surrendered a claim against the client for hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.

Represented AOL's subsidiary, Tegic Communications, in a patent suit against an infringing competitor. After a three-week jury trial involving complex text input software technology, defeated the attack on the validity of two Tegic patents and won a unanimous jury verdict of willful infringement and $9 million in compensatory damages.

Represented Monsanto in a patent infringement matter when the plaintiff patentee, a local public university, alleged that our client’s recombinant bovine growth hormone product infringed its patent and sought $1.8 billion in treble damages and a permanent injunction. After winning a summary judgment eliminating one of the two accused products, and limiting the literal coverage of the claims to technology “known and available” in 1980, the case settled favorably the day before the jury trial was to start.

Represented AstraZeneca in a patent infringement action involving cancer medication.  Obtained summary judgment on the patent misuse defense.

Represented Kmart Corporation, winning a bench trial upholding its multi-million dollar contract with its co-branded credit card partner.  For the same client, obtained dismissal with prejudice, on the eve of trial, of a multi-million dollar lease dispute brought against it.

Represented IBM, obtaining a favorable settlement during a bench trial in a multi-million dollar breach-of-contract action involving third-party equipment leasing.

Represented Borland Software Corporation in a trademark infringement action where the plaintiff sought $250 million dollars and permanent injunctive relief.  Was able to obtain a favorable pre-trial settlement.

Represented several media companies, including AOL Time Warner and The Columbia House Company, in a Section 17200 unfair competition suit alleging millions of dollars in damages arising from the collection of use taxes on the shipping and handling costs of compact discs, tapes, videos, DVDs and other similar products.  Obtained a dismissal with prejudice at the pleading stage.