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November 06, 2015
This week, Law360 will begin profiling those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 03, 2014
By guiding Octane Fitness LLC to a U.S. Supreme Court victory in a case that made it easier for courts to award attorneys' fees in meritless patent infringement cases, Harness Dickey & Pierce PLC principal Rudolph Telscher has earned himself a spot on Law360's list of intellectual property MVPs.
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December 02, 2014
Having successfully represented medical monitoring company Masimo Corp. in a series of patent suits — including one that led to a $467 million infringement verdict against two Koninklijke Philips NV units — Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP partner Joseph Re has landed himself among Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 01, 2014
Representing Edwards Lifesciences AG in court battles with Medtronic Inc. over heart valve patents and helping to secure a more than $1 billion settlement between the medical device companies has earned Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Catherine Nyarady a place on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 26, 2014
Erise IP’s Jason Mudd was one of the attorneys to help Garmin International Inc. win the first-ever decision issued under the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s new inter partes review process and represented Ford Motor Co. in other high-profile cases, landing him a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 25, 2014
WilmerHale's Bill Lee secured $410 million in damages for Apple Inc. in two separate patent trials against arch rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and got a $368 million infringement verdict against Apple set aside in another case, earning a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property MVPs for the fourth straight year.
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November 24, 2014
Rachel Krevans of Morrison & Foerster LLP played a key role in securing jury verdicts of more than $1 billion for Apple Inc. in its patent wars with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and nabbed victories in other cases before the Federal Circuit, landing a spot among Law360’s Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 21, 2014
Veteran intellectual property litigator Nicholas Groombridge of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has many wins under his belt, but a recent $1.1 billion settlement between Edwards Lifesciences AG and Medtronic Inc. ending a lengthy patent war is among the victories that have helped to earn him a spot on Law360’s list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 20, 2014
When William Gaede of McDermott Will & Emery LLP recently stood at the vanguard of using patent law to open up access to gene-based cancer testing, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of Intellectual Property MVPs, Gaede was fulfilling a promise he made to himself nearly 20 years ago.
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November 19, 2014
Guiding Google Inc. to a win in a copyright suit over the search giant's Google Books project is just one of the recent accomplishments that earned Durie Tangri LLP's Daralyn Durie a place among Law360's intellectual property MVPs.
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November 18, 2014
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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November 26, 2013
Guiding Pfizer Inc. to a settlement where generic-drug makers agreed to pay $2.15 billion to end litigation over an acid reflux drug and helping Apple Inc. obtain the first White House veto of a U.S. International Trade Commission exclusion order since 1987 has landed WilmerHale's Bill Lee on Law360's list of IP MVPs for the third straight year.
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November 25, 2013
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Charles Verhoeven improved his record of success in front of the Federal Circuit to 15-1-1, thanks to a decision in Microsoft v. ITC and Motorola that blocked the plaintiff from obtaining an exclusion order against the plaintiff, earning him a spot on Law360's 2013 list of IP MVPs.
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November 22, 2013
Sidley Austin LLP's David Pritikin spent the last year defending Microsoft Corp. against a wave of high-stakes litigation brought by Google Inc.'s Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and scored a landmark ruling along the way that is shaping how standard-essential patents are valued, earning him a spot on Law360's 2013 list of IP MVPs.
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November 21, 2013
As the debate raged on among legislators and policymakers on how to best craft rules to crack down on the activities of so-called patent trolls, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Chris R. Ottenweller was busy in the courtroom making the most of existing litigation techniques, securing key wins for his clients that landed him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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November 22, 2013
Securing court victories that saved his clients, including Google Inc., billions and that led to landmark decisions on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and whether U.S. trade law protected the licensing businesses of “patent trolls” has made A. John P. Mancini of Mayer Brown LLP one of Law360's 2013 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 19, 2013
Having established himself as a go-to attorney in patent trials, Latham & Watkins LLP's Douglas Lumish recently took a leading role in a successful representation of Google Inc. and helped TransPerfect Global Inc. win a $1 million jury verdict in an infringement dispute, landing him among Law360's Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 15, 2013
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Josh Krevitt landed on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs for a second year in a row, by once again handling the toughest cases with remarkable success for giants like Apple Inc., T-Mobile USA Inc. and Sharp Corp.
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November 14, 2013
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Annette L. Hurst recently added to her already impressive string of victories in major copyright matters by crafting the strategy that convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to find that first-sale doctrine extends to products made outside the U.S., earning her a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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November 13, 2013
Fish & Richardson PC's Juanita Brooks secured rulings that wiped out a $23.5 million infringement judgment against Fresenius USA Inc. and protected two Allergan Inc. drugs from generic competition, earning her a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 12, 2013
Ropes & Gray LLP's J. Steven Baughman helped SAP AG invalidate a key Versata Software Inc. patent in the first-ever decision of an America Invents Act challenge in 2013, earning himself a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 08, 2013
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile the elite law firm partners whose exemplary work on critical litigation, mammoth deals and first-of-their-kind global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 13, 2012
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP's Donald R. Dunner deployed his extensive appellate litigation experience to secure a major victory for Akamai Technologies Inc. that will make it easier for patent holders to prove induced infringement in cases involving multiple actors, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 12, 2012
Chris R. Ottenweller of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP successfully defended Apple Inc. at the U.S. International Trade Commission in one of the earliest smartphone patent cases to go to trial and secured a precedent-setting victory for EMC Corp. at the Federal Circuit that put an end to a favorite tactic of patent trolls, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 11, 2012
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's Floyd Mandell, already a highly respected trademark law practitioner, secured favorable outcomes over this past year for Microsoft Corp., Skype Inc., retail behemoth Arcadia Group Ltd. and others in a slew of high-profile disputes over their marks, earning him a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property MVPs.