July 12, 2023
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday sided with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP in a conflict arising from the firm's hiring of a Shearman & Sterling LLP attorney, which Viasat Inc. claimed barred Gibson Dunn from representing the telecom company's opponent Western Digital Technologies in a patent dispute.
June 29, 2023
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has taken a "cavalier" approach to a conflict arising from its hiring of a Shearman & Sterling LLP attorney, California telecom company Viasat Inc. said in urging a Texas federal court to disqualify the firm from representing digital storage company Western Digital Technologies in a patent dispute.
June 22, 2023
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has taken aim at California telecom company Viasat Inc.'s bid to disqualify the firm in a Texas federal court patent dispute due to a firm attorney's recent move from Shearman & Sterling LLP, blasting the tactic as a "sword" to "hamstring" its client's defense.
June 09, 2023
California telecom company Viasat Inc. says an attorney's recent move from Shearman & Sterling LLP to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP bars Gibson Dunn from representing the telecom's opponent, digital storage company Western Digital Technologies, in a Texas federal court patent dispute.
December 20, 2022
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas said he's rejecting a bid to transfer a patent suit the digital storage company Western Digital Technologies Inc. is facing from a rival because of how "unprepared" the company's legal team was during a deposition, the same day the Patent Trial and Appeal Board agreed to eye arguments from Western Digital that one of the patents isn't valid.
December 15, 2022
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has refused to trim a suit accusing data storage company Western Digital Technologies of infringing patents owned by communications company Viasat, finding that Viasat has adequately alleged the claims at issue.