Our finalists for Litigator of the Week include a trial team from Baker Botts led by partners Stephen Hash, Elizabeth Durham Flannery, David Weaver, Michael Hawes and David Wille.

They beat back a patent infringement suit in Delaware federal court on behalf of UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., convincing the jury to invalidate all four patents asserted by PacBio involving DNA sequencing systems.

Paul Brinkman and Joe Loy of Kirkland & Ellis are the toast of Heineken after scoring a total win at the International Trade Commission in a fight with Anheuser Busch InBev. ABI started the fight, claiming Heineken was infringing its patents for technology related to "bag-in containers" for beer, only to abruptly dismiss its case.