Cary Adickman is Of Counsel in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. Cary has litigated and tried complex intellectual-property cases for over twelve years, with a focus on patent and copyright litigation.
His experience spans a broad spectrum of technologies, including AI and machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, enterprise data management systems, cloud computing, cellular technology and telecommunications, consumer electronics, encryption, embedded systems, wearable medical devices, and metal 3D printing.
Before becoming an attorney, Cary was a UNIX system engineer in the health care IT industry, where he managed critical infrastructure supporting EMR systems and clinical applications.
- Defending NVIDIA in watershed proposed class-action lawsuits brought by authors alleging that NVIDIA used their copyrighted works to train their large language models (LLMs).
- Defending Tempus AI in a patent infringement dispute against Guardant Health, Inc., in which the patents-in-suit relate to liquid biopsy assays for detecting genetic mutations indicative of cancer.
- Represented DexCom in a global patent dispute against Abbott Diabetes Care, in which the patents-at-issue related to continuous glucose monitoring technology.
- Represented Google in a patent infringement dispute against Sonos involving speech recognition technology.
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
(J.D., cum laude, 2013) - Washington University in Saint Louis
(B.A., Computational Linguistics, 2007)
- The State Bar of New York
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Patent, 2021-2025
- Listed in Super Lawyers: Rising Stars, Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2023-2024
- Named as a Thomson Reuters “Stand-Out Lawyer”, 2023
- Co-Author, How Fintiv Stipulations Affect IPR Institution, By The Numbers, Law360 (Feb. 2022).
- Co-Author, Willful Infringement and Enhanced Damages, Post-Halo, Daily Journal (December 2018).
- Author, Supreme Court Takes up Constitutionality of Inter Partes Review, Lime Green IP News (June 21, 2017).
- Co-Author, District Court Defines Scope of IPR Estoppel by Specifying When Prior Art “Reasonably Could Have Been Raised” in an IPR, Lime Green IP News (Mar. 24, 2016).
- Co-Author, S. Supreme Court Rejects Federal Circuit’s Standard for Inducement of Patent Infringement, Lime Green IP News (July 1, 2014).
- Grin and Forbear It: Suffering Statutory Forbearance Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Telecomms. Pol’y Res. Conf. (2013).
- Special Access: The Harm of Premature Deregulation in Telecommunications, 31 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 113 (2012).