Shout-Out: Fenwick's Sizzling Summer
Fenwick & West litigators have racked up a series of back-to-back wins since the summer solstice.
July 10, 2019 at 01:53 PM
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Fenwick & West litigators are hot—and not because it's July. Firm lawyers have racked up a series of back-to-back wins since the summer solstice, most recently on behalf of Amazon before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a patent suit by Innovation Sciences.
Litigators Dave Hadden, Saina Shamilov, Todd Gregorian and Ravi Ranganath last week convinced the appellate panel to find one patent related to online payments was invalid, and to affirm that Amazon did not infringe another patent.
In late June, Fenwick partners Bryan Kohm and Mike Sacksteder and associate Shannon Turner (along with co-counsel from The Dacus Firm) beat back allegations that their client, semiconductor designer CNEX Labs Inc., stole trade secrets from Huawei Technologies. A federal jury in Texas also sided with CNEX in its counterclaim, though it declined to award damages.
On the same day—June 26—Fenwick's litigation chair Jed Wakefield and partners Bobby Counihan and Pat Premo and associates Jeff Ware and Catherine McCord, plus Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's Regina Rodriguez, scored for Eli Lilly and Co. subsidiary Loxo. A federal judge in Colorado refused to issue a pretrial injunction based on trade secret theft allegations by Array BioPharma.
Two days before that, the Federal Circuit handed a win to Fenwick's Jim Trainor, Kevin McGann, Adam Gahtan and Bobby Counihan and co-counsel Jack Blumenfeld of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnel on behalf of UCB. The appellate panel affirmed the district court's finding that defendant Watson Labs infringed UCB's patent covering Neupro, a patch used to treat Parkinson's disease.
And let's not forget cherry on top: a Fenwick team—“F.U.C.T. (Fenwick Underwrites Cyberlaw Trivia)”—won the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 12th Annual CyberLaw Trivia Night on June 27, beating out more than 100 participants from Bay Area law firms and tech companies.
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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
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Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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