Like other firms, Pepper Hamilton, advises clients on both ends of the IP spectrum: prosecuting patent applications for product-rich Google on the one hand, and representing non-practicing entities on the other. That makes good business sense, since both smartphone patent work and “troll” litigation are booming. Pepper recently expanded its client base a bit too far for Google’s liking, however, when it brought a batch of patent infringement suits against Google’s Android partners on behalf of a Wall Street-backed patent aggregator called Digitude Innovations.
In an opinion issued on Monday, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge rejected Google’s bid to disqualify Pepper Hamilton from an ITC case it brought for Digitude against nearly a dozen smartphone manufacturers, including HTC and Samsung, that use Google’s Android operating system. Google, which intervened in the ITC case in January, claimed Pepper Hamilton had a conflict of interest because it helped Google file applications for some of its Android patents.
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