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December 19, 2014
Showcasing strength in numbers and the agility needed to serve up top-notch client service on a number of fronts, two law firms secured a combined 18 Law360 Practice Group of the Year awards in 2014 to earn the distinction of Law360's Firms of the Year.
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December 19, 2014
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year, awarded to firms that came through for their clients in 2014, sealing the big deals and winning the high-stakes suits.
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January 15, 2014
WilmerHale's intellectual property group helped convince the White House to overturn an import ban for Apple Inc., won a major U.S. Supreme Court victory for Monsanto Co. and scored a $2.15 billion patent infringement settlement for Pfizer Inc., landing the firm among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2014
The leaders of the Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's intellectual property team credited the group's diversity and specialization for its big year as the firm repeatedly scored significant litigation and shepherded clients through the complex IP components of high-profile transactions, winning a spot among Law360’s IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2014
After helping Google Inc. fend off a patent infringement suit over its AdSense program and representing Micron Technology Inc. in a case where Rambus Inc.'s patents were ruled unenforceable, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has earned a spot among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 10, 2014
Intellectual property attorneys at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP secured a slew of high stakes copyright and patent wins last year, including a groundbreaking victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on the first-sale doctrine, earning the firm a spot on Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 09, 2014
O'Melveny & Myers LLP won two high-profile cases last year over iconic characters, securing the rights to Superman for DC Comics Inc. and to the "Winnie-the-Pooh" franchise for Disney Enterprises Inc., which earned the firm a spot among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 08, 2014
McKool Smith PC's intellectual property group proved its patent litigation prowess by netting a $368 million jury verdict against Apple Inc. and winning a precedent-setting Federal Circuit decision for Ultramercial LLC, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2013 IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2014
The intellectual property team at K&L Gates LLP scored a bevy of high-profile wins over the past year, with none more eye-catching than the $1.16 billion judgment it snagged on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University in a patent infringement suit against Marvell Technology Group Ltd., securing the firm a spot among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2014
Helping CLS Bank International secure an en banc Federal Circuit ruling in a patent dispute over software involving abstract ideas and T-Mobile USA Inc. beat big-money patent infringement claims, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP'
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January 03, 2014
The intellectual property attorneys at IP-centric Fish & Richardson PC once again handled more patent litigation than any other law firm last year, in the process securing the firm a slew of big-name victories and a spot on Law360’s IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 02, 2014
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP secured a win for SAP America Inc. in the first-ever decision in an America Invents Act patent challenge and handled a case that established that copyright can be transferred electronically, landing the firm among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 01, 2014
Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards, given to firms that excelled at getting the job done for clients in litigation and deals in 2013.
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January 08, 2013
Winning a billion-dollar jury verdict for Apple Inc. probably would have been enough, but Morrison & Foerster LLP's intellectual property attorneys also racked up a slew of other major victories last year, more than earning the firm a spot on Law360’s IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2013
By guiding Google Inc. to a widely publicized win in Oracle Corp.’s mobile device patent and copyright infringement suit and scoring dozens of other victories for both large and small companies, King & Spalding LLP’s intellectual property practice landed itself among Law360’s IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 04, 2013
By securing key wins that included reversing a controversial intervening rights ruling, upholding the patentability of human genes and paring down SAP AG's massive damages payment to Oracle Corp., Jones Day proved a formidable force in intellectual property litigation last year, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 03, 2013
Fish & Richardson PC secured a landmark victory for Mayo Collaborative Services at the U.S. Supreme Court in the highest-profile patent ruling of the year and handled cases that established new law on willfulness and declaratory judgment, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of top IP Groups of 2012.
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January 02, 2013
From winning a key precedent on joint patent infringement to helping AOL Inc. score a $1 billion patent deal, Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP has used its range of expertise to notch victories for clients over the past year, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of IP Groups of 2012.
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January 01, 2013
Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Practice Groups of the Year award.
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January 09, 2012
WilmerHale attorneys not only convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that inventors were entitled to first claim patent rights this past year, but also helped i4i LP secure a patent ruling against Microsoft Corp. in the high court just three days later, earning it a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2011.
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January 06, 2012
Facing an appeal from Psystar Corp. over copyright misuse of the Mac OS X operating system, Apple Inc. turned to O'Melveny & Myers LLP's seasoned intellectual property team, which in September got the Ninth Circuit to uphold an injunction against Psystar in the high stakes case, securing it a place among Law360's IP Groups of 2011.
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January 05, 2012
The intellectual property team at Munger Tolles & Olson LLP secured a landmark ruling for Abbott Laboratories that tightened the standards for proving inequitable conduct and reached a major settlement with file-sharing software maker LimeWire LLC on behalf of the record industry, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property Groups of 2011.
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January 04, 2012
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP secured a victory for French appliance maker SEB SA and reshaped the patent litigation landscape by persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a new legal standard for the mental state that must be proven to show induced infringement, earning the law firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of 2011.
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January 03, 2012
From helping Apple Inc. protect its iPhone patents from HTC Corp. smartphones to leading the Associated Press in its copyright infringement case over Shepard Fairey's Obama "Hope" posters, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's intellectual property team notched big wins across the board in 2011, earning a spot on Law360's list of IP Groups of 2011.
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January 10, 2011
In one of the most important patent cases of 2010, WilmerHale convinced a federal appeals court that Philips Corp.'s joint efforts to develop standard technology for recordable compact discs with Sony Corp. did not amount to patent misuse, just one of the reasons the firm earned a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of 2010.