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Our client, Google, was sued for copyright infringement when an artist sued New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (among others) in connection with the allegedly unauthorized use of the artists’s painting on a limited number of copies of Friedman...
Quinn Emanuel utilizes a variety of techniques and tools that give us a competitive edge and help us win. Mock Jury Trials We make extensive use of mock jury trials using our own proprietary method, which permits us to conduct them q...
Vincent Pollmeier is Quinn Emanuel's Chief Technology Counsel and brings to the practice of law a unique combination of technical and legal acumen. Prior to entering the law, Vincent spent more than a dozen years directly involved in cutti...
Notable Results: Obtained 8-figure settlement for medical device client during trial. Obtained summary judgment for innovator pharmaceutical client dismissing defenses of inequitable conduct, anticipation, and noninfringement in multi-defe...
Successful defense of a respondent in an ITC action against Microsoft alleging infringement of 4 patents involving unified communication systems. After trial, the Commission found none of the patents infringed.Trial victory on a video se...
Represented online music innovator MP3.com in more than 25 lawsuits in New York and California arising from its novel music delivery service launched in January 2000. He was a principal architect of the "work for hire" copyright challenge ...
Represented plaintiff Caruso Affiliated Holdings in anti trust and tortious interference jury trial, recovering $74 million in compensatory damages, and then $15 million in punitive damages, against General Growth Partners (GGP), the second largest ...
Digene v. Beckman. Counsel for Digene in arbitration before the ICDR regarding patent rights to HPV technology in which the panel found in Digene's favor. Gen II Orthotics v. Bledsoe. Counsel for Gen II in a jury trial on paten...
William Androlia specializes in all aspects of international trade practice and high technology patent practice, including U.S.-Japan patent, trademark and copyright applications, search, infringement analysis, licensing, and litigation. ...
Lead trial counsel for Tyco Healthcare Group LP in patent infringement litigation brought to enforce its surgical trocar patent rights, obtaining a jury verdict of infringement and damages Lead trial counsel for H. Lundbeck A/S and Forest Labor...
Represented the Washington Redskins in overcoming a challenge to its long-held trademark registrations, brought by Suzan Harjo and six other petitioners, on the grounds that the marks disparage and otherwise injure Native Americans. Represented...
Henry Koda specializes in all aspects of international trade practice and high technology patent practice, including U.S.-Japan patent, trademark and copyright applications, search, infringement analysis, licensing, and litigation.
Represented Infineon and its spinoff Qimonda in an Eastern District of Texas action involving five patents relating to semiconductor packaging technologies and antitrust claims. The case settled favorably shortly after summary judgment argumen...
John Pierce is one of Quinn Emanuel’s top up and coming trial lawyers. A former Army officer who was also an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Pierce is a tireless advocate who has represented individuals and companies in a broad ran...
Represented Brøderbund Software in Brøderbund Software, Inc. v. Unison World, Inc., 648 F. Supp. 1127 (N.D. Cal. 1986), the first reported case to recognize and enforce the copyrightability of the user-interface of a non-video game com...
Representing Mattel, Inc. in its highly-publicized copyright action against MGA Entertainment, manufacturer of "Bratz" dolls, and Carter Bryant, Bratz's creator. Won key summary judgment rulings confirming that Mattel owned works...
Representing initial and secondary market lenders and purchasers of notes of Le Nature's in litigation against Wachovia Securities for losses in connection with syndication of bank loans and market maker activity.We represent the Refco Litigatio...
Lead Counsel for EKR Therapeutics in Hatch Waxman patent litigation against Sun Pharmaceuticals arising out of Sun’s submission of an ANDA referencing EKR’s branded product CARDENE® I.V. On March 31, 2009, the court granted EKR...
Currently representing Bio-Rad and ARUP in patent action involving genetic mutations for hemochromatosis. Successfully represented Roche against Stanford University in case involving HIV diagnostic test kits. Board of Trustees of Leland S...
More than a week after trial began, after having no prior involvement in the case, assumed the role of lead trial counsel for Caruso Affiliated Holdings, a Southern California developer of "lifestyle" shopping centers, against General Grow...
Dave Henri is the firm's Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining the firm, he was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of California Federal Bank from 1984 to 1994. Prior to that he was a Division Attorney with Getty ...
Representing Google in an action brought by an adult entertainment publisher involving claims of copyright infringement, trademark infringement and dilution, unfair competition and violation of rights of publicity related to Google's Web and Ima...
Represented MediaTek in a series of patent lawsuits in San Francisco and Marshall, Texas against Matsushita involving semiconductors and consumer electronics products. After obtaining favorable rulings on claim construction, summary judgment a...
Represented Google and AOL in a patent infringement action brought in the Eastern District of Texas by Performance Pricing. The asserted patent related to an e-commerce method for adjusting the price of a product according to a buyer’s p...
Argued before the United States Supreme Court for the Manhattan Democratic Party in Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of Elections and won a unanimous decision establishing the constitutionality of New York's convention system for electing st...
Represented IBM in a patent infringement matter in which the plaintiff alleged that IBM's UDDI offering infringed a patent related to trade network software. Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement and invalidity which was subsequent...
Represented Claimant Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of South Korea (ETR1) in an International Chamber of Commerce arbitration involving breach of a joint development agreement for CDMA digital wireless technology. Obtained a $...
Obtained an order of "no violation of Section 337" in an ITC patent trial brought by Qualcomm seeking to exclude Nokia, the largest mobile handset manufacturer in the world, from importing its handsets into the United States. Obtaine...
Represented plaintiff Veritas Operating Corp. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Symantec) against Microsoft in a multi-faceted case involving claims of trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement, copyright infringement, and contract breach in th...
Gabe is a senior associate in the Silicon Valley Office of Quinn Emanuel. His practice focuses on intellectual property cases, centering almost exclusively on patent litigation. Gabe has successfully represented defendants in patent case...
Representing monoline insurer MBIA in an action based on fraud and breaches of contract by GMAC Mortgage, LLC based upon fraud and contractual breaches in connection with over $4 billion of RMBS securitizations. Counsel for former officers and...
Represented Seiko Epson Corporation in a Section 337 Investigation before the International Trade Commission against manufacturers and importers of ink cartridges for use with Epson printers that infringed Epson's patents. Obtained general...
Representing Mattel, Inc. in its highly-publicized copyright action against MGA Entertainment, manufacturer of "Bratz" dolls, and Carter Bryant, Bratz's creator. After hearing 14 weeks of evidence, the jury determined Bryant had ...
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Four lawyers started our firm on January 1, 1986. When we were founded there was a single goal: to be a trial firm -- litigation only, all the time. We wanted to eliminate everything that stood in the way of, or was irrelevant to, achieving that goa...
Victory: January 2010: Defense Victory for Ask.com in Delaware
The firm recently obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of IAC Search & Media, Inc. (“IAC”) in a patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The plaintiff’s patent covered systems and methods...
Victory: May 2010: Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement in Texas
Quinn Emanuel won summary judgment of non-infringement for Google and AOL in Performance Pricing v. Google et al. in the Eastern District of Texas. In 2007, an Acacia plaintiff, represented by Dovel and Luner, filed suit against all major online search en...
Victory: June 2010: Dismissal of Defamation Suit against Gartner, Inc.
The firm recently won dismissal of all claims in ZL Technologies, Inc. v. Gartner, Inc., CV 09-023293 JF(PVT) (N.D. Cal. May 3, 2010), a defamation suit against our client Gartner, Inc., the industry-leading information technology research and advisory co...
Victory: November 2009: Victory for Roche in HIV Patent Action
On September 30, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals issued a unanimous, precedential opinion providing complete victory for Quinn Emanuel’s client Roche Molecular Systems over Stanford University in a closely watched case involving intellectua...
Article: October 2009: Quinn Emanuel Wins Stunning Reversal for New York Governor Paterson
May a sitting governor appoint a lieutenant governor when there is a vacancy in that office? New York’s Governor David Paterson faced that question after he was elevated from lieutenant governor to governor upon Eliot Spitzer’s resignation. Th...
Article: September 2009: Recent Trends in Securities Class Actions
The upheaval in the world’s financial markets over the past two years has led to a surge in securities class action filings. In 2008, the number of filings reached levels not seen since 2002, and early indicators point to a similar result in 2009. T...
Main Articles:Statutory Rights to “Credit Bids” May Be Restricted by Governing Credit DocumentsFederal Circuit Panel Upholds Patentability of Medical Diagnostic TestingVictories:Victory before the UK Supreme CourtVictory for Roche in HIV Paten...