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December 10, 2012
Leading the effort to secure a $1 billion jury verdict for Monsanto Co. in a high-profile patent infringement suit against DuPont Co. over herbicide-resistant seed technology, Winston & Strawn LLP's George Lombardi had a banner year that landed him among Law360's Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 07, 2012
When the judge overseeing a high-stakes patent battle between Apple Inc. and rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. asked veteran WilmerHale litigator William Lee if he had been “smoking crack,” Lee didn't get flustered — instead he went on to help Apple Inc. win a billion-dollar verdict, earning a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 06, 2012
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Josh Krevitt steered Apple Inc., AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA out of harm's way in 2012 by fending off major patent infringement cases against the three tech giants, earning himself a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 05, 2012
Over the past year, intellectual property litigator Michael S. Elkin of Winston & Strawn LLP has secured courtroom wins that have not only benefited his media industry clients, but have had a profound effect on the wider new media landscape, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 04, 2012
Robert Van Nest of Keker & Van Nest LLP led Google Inc. to a sweeping victory in a patent and copyright suit brought by Oracle Corp. and represented HTC Corp. in its recently-settled smartphone patent dispute with Apple Inc., earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 03, 2012
Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella LLP secured two major settlements for TiVo Inc. over the past year, striking deals with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. just before separate trials over TiVo's digital video recording patents were set to begin, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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November 30, 2012
Jones Day's Greg Castanias convinced the Federal Circuit to uphold Myriad Genetics' breast cancer gene patents for a second time in 2012, scoring a victory for the entire biotechnology industry in the patent test case and earning himself a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 30, 2012
Over the next several weeks, Law360 will profile the winners of this year's MVP awards honoring attorneys whose achievements in major litigation or transactions have set a new standard for accomplishment in corporate law.
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December 21, 2011
As lead counsel for Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Motorola Inc. in smartphone patent litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Charles Verhoeven is the general called upon to lead the troops in the smartphone wars, making him one of Law360's Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 20, 2011
In September, Crowell & Moring LLP's Michael Songer scored a $920 million jury verdict for DuPont Co. in its suit against Kolon Industries Inc., a victory that closed the book on one of the largest trade secret misappropriation cases in history and landed Songer a spot on Law360's list of intellectual property MVPs.
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December 19, 2011
When a trial court deemed his client Abbott Laboratories' patent for blood glucose test trips unenforceable, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner Rohit Singla had just an inkling of what the future held: a landmark 2011 Federal Circuit decision that not only reversed that ruling, but also fundamentally changed how courts view inequitable conduct battles in patent cases, an outcome earning him a spot on Law 360's list of Intellectual Property MVP's.
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December 16, 2011
Paul Hastings LLP's Jeff G. Randall convinced a Texas federal judge to throw out a $626 million jury award against Apple Inc. this April in Mirror Worlds LLC's case over patents for document management and display technology, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 15, 2011
For a patent attorney whose credentials and past victories have already established him as one of the greats in his field, winning the reversal of a $1.67 billion verdict in 2011 was yet another triumph for WilmerHale's Bill Lee as he made his way onto Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 14, 2011
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP patent litigator Daniel Johnson Jr. helped ActiveVideo Networks Inc. score a $140 million patent infringement judgment against communications giant Verizon Communications Inc., earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 13, 2011
Jim Hurst of Winston & Strawn LLP has been on a winning streak for the past year, racking up eight separate trial victories in the last 18 months for clients such as Abbott Laboratories, a feat that earned him a place on Law360's roster of Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 12, 2011
As lead trial counsel for Medtronic Inc. subsidiary Warsaw Orthopedic Inc. in its patent dispute with NuVasive Inc., Luke Dauchot of Kirkland & Ellis LLP parlayed his extensive knowledge of the patents-in-suit along with his ability as a team leader into a jury award worth over $100 million, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 09, 2011
Juanita Brooks of Fish & Richardson PC has racked up three separate patent trial victories for Allergan Inc. and Cephalon Inc. over the past year, earning her a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.
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December 08, 2011
Spansion Inc.'s patent case against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in the U.S. International Trade Commission had the potential to block a wide swath of electronics using flash memory chips from being imported into the U.S., but Gregory Arovas of Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped clear Samsung from the infringement claims and from having any products excluded, earning him a spot on Law360's list of IP MVPs.