On the West Coast, San Francisco?based Morrison & Foerster has a well-established reputation as a solid IP litigation department with a deep bench of first-class litigators. But the firm hadn’t often shown up on the the radar screen of big East Coast corporate clients?until last year. With outstanding results for clients Chiron Corporation, EchoStar Communications Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Novell, Inc., the University of California and Yahoo! Inc., MoFo has vaulted itself into the top IP ranks.
Partner Rachel Krevans’s victory over patent-holding company Forgent Networks, Inc. made news last May. Krevans saved EchoStar from paying millions?$205 million was claimed?in patent infringement damages. The Austin-based Forgent has sued essentially the entire cable and satellite television industry for royalties on a patent it holds on digital video recorders. While all the other eight codefendants settled to the tune of $40 million, Krevans’s team advised EchoStar to fight it out and successfully invalidated Forgent’s patent. “MoFo alone took the risk, and they delivered the goods,” says EchoStar IP counsel Jeffrey Blum.
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