Representative District Court Matters

• Defending a leading global media company in a 5-patent case in the U.S. (C.D. Cal.) involving H.264 (AVC) and H.265 (HEVC) video encoding technologies, as well as coordinating global defense strategy across 12 foreign cases in Germany, Brazil, and at the Unified Patent Court (UPC); case ongoing
• Defending international consumer electronics company in a 9-patent case involving GPS, location sharing, and mobile notification technologies (E.D. Tex.); case ongoing
• Defended global entertainment company in a 6-patent case in the U.S. (D. Del.) involving video streaming technologies, as well as coordinated global defense strategy across 4 international cases in Germany, Brazil, and at the Unified Patent Court; reached favorable settlement
• Defended global media company in a patent infringement case involving an Internet media and advertisement distribution patent (D. Del.); case pending appeal after the asserted claims were invalidated through IPR and § 101 motion
• Defending world’s leading cryptocurrency mining chip maker in a breach-of-contract and trade secret misappropriation case involving ASIC design and SHA-256 optimization technologies (Super. Ct. Cal.); case pending appeal after the trial court granted summary judgment in client’s favor
• Defending leading semiconductor memory maker in a patent infringement case involving vertical 3D-stacked memory technology; case stayed after successful institution of IPR; case pending appeal after Plaintiff stipulated to non-infringement based on claim construction
• Defended leading mobile device maker in a patent infringement case relating to location detection technology for mobile devices; all asserted claims invalidated through IPR
• Representing international consumer electronics company in two different patent infringement cases involving 11 patents relating to LED and smart devices technologies (N.D. Ill.; W.D. Tex.); all asserted claims invalidated through IPR
• Defending global microprocessor manufacturer in two different patent infringement cases involving patents relating to memory, microprocessor, bus interface, and semiconductor fabrication technologies (D.Del.; W.D. Tex.); reached favorable settlement after winning transfer motion
• Successfully defended multinational technology company in a patent infringement case involving 16 patents relating to features of smartphones, tablet devices and portable media players (D.Del.); case settled on favorable terms after 15 out of 16 patents were determined to be invalid or not infringed after two jury trials in the District Court of Delaware and associated appeals
• Successfully settled patent infringement litigation relating to alleged improvements to clocking architecture used in DDR3 and DDR3 SDRAM memory after identifying key prior art that demonstrated invalidity of the patents (E.D. Tex.)
• Defended international consumer electronics company in asserting patent infringement claims involving GPU technology in multi-jurisdictional patent dispute (E.D.Va.); case settled favorably after the first trial and as the parties were preparing for the second trial
• Represented global microprocessor manufacturer in high-profile, high-stakes antitrust litigation against competitor resulting in record-setting US$1.25 billion settlement in favor of client (D.Del.); case required highly complex and detailed analysis and understanding of the microprocessor industry, server, desktop, and mobile platform design, manufacturing capacity and other related issues

U.S. International Trade Commission Matters (Section 337 Investigations)

• Defended leading microprocessor company in an ITC investigation on patents relating to semiconductor processing and hybrid bonding; the parties reached a favorable settlement
• Defended leading international drone maker in an ITC investigation on patents relating to virtual-reality goggles; the parties reached a favorable settlement
• Defended international consumer electronics company in an ITC investigation on patents relating to semiconductor wafer-level packaging; the parties reached a favorable settlement after we successfully obtained a dismissal of the ITC investigation
• Represented international consumer electronics company in two ITC investigations involving the assertion of multiple patents related to liquid crystal display technology against a competitor and the defense of patent claims by competitor; the parties reached a favorable settlement that included a significant payment to our client
• Defended multinational technology company in an investigation involving three graphics and display patents; investigation terminated after favorable settlement
• Defended global microprocessor manufacturer in an ITC Investigation involving patent infringement allegations against graphics processing units and memory controllers; investigation terminated after favorable settlement

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Matters

• Represented global microprocessor manufacturer in over 30 Inter Partes Review proceedings challenging the validity of patents relating to microprocessor design and semiconductor fabrication technologies
• Represented multinational technology company in 20 Inter Partes Review and Covered Business Method proceedings challenging the validity of patents relating to a wide range of mobile communication, Internet, video streaming, and authentication technologies
• Represented leading semiconductor memory supplier in 17Inter Partes Review proceedings challenging the validity of patents relating to semiconductor fabrication, memory architecture, and 3D integration technologies
• Represented international consumer electronics maker in 12 Inter Partes Review challenging the validity of patents relating to a wide range of microprocessor architecture, semiconductor fabrication, display, mobile communication, GPS, and wireless technologies