ZIRVI v. ILLUMINA, INC. et al

  1. April 26, 2024

    Latham, Akin Beat NJ Suit Over Alleged IP Theft Scheme

    A New Jersey federal court on Friday tossed a lawsuit claiming attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP manipulated patent litigation to steal a former Cornell University graduate student's DNA sequencing intellectual property, calling that graduate student's claims "conspiracy theories."

  2. October 27, 2023

    Biotech Firm Rips 'Time-Worn Cudgel,' Wants Attys Punished

    A biotechnology company and an attorney have asked a federal judge in New Jersey to impose sanctions on the counsel for a Garden State dermatologist who has been suing over intellectual property rights to work he did as a graduate student nearly three decades ago.

  3. April 11, 2023

    Latham, Akin Attys Sank DNA Patent Row, Suit Says

    A New Jersey dermatologist says that lawyers at Latham & Watkins LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP deliberately tanked a patent fight between Cornell University and DNA sequencing company Illumina by giving him bad advice during depositions over research he conducted as a graduate student that he says later formed the basis of a DNA cancer-screening product Illumina marketed with medical equipment supplier Thermo Fisher.