As Barnes & Noble defends itself against accusations that its Nook infringes Microsoft’s patents, the bookstore chain has pushed back with claims that the tech giant’s use or misuse of its patents is anticompetitive. Now Barnes & Noble has brought in a lawyer experienced in Microsoft’s ways: David Boies. (Hat tip to Florian Mueller’s Foss Patents blog.)
The Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner, who formally entered an appearance on Wednesday in International Trade Commission proceedings, is just the latest addition to Barnes & Noble’s legal arsenal. Two weeks earlier the company added a trio of partners from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to a defense team already comprised of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Kenyon & Kenyon. The Quinn lawyers include Paul Brinkman, who in September left Alston & Bird with two other partners to open a Washington, D.C., office for the firm.
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