L-R: Paul J. Andre, Lisa Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Courtesy photos How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries
Paul Andre, Liza Kobialka and James Hannah of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, who have won three trials in the past 10 months, say trying to oversimplify technology for juries is a mistake.
October 23, 2024 at 07:30 AM
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Close readers of the Runners-Up and Shout Outs column might have picked up on a pattern lately: Paul Andre, Lisa Kobialka, James Hannah and their team at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel have put together a string of three big plaintiff-side patent litigation wins over the past 10 months.
Earlier this month, in a case where they represented client Acceleration Bay, federal jurors in Delaware returned a $30.5 million verdict against Amazon Web Services, finding two AWS cloud-based products infringed upon patents covering computer networking and broadcasting technology. That win came just a few months after the team landed a $23.4 million verdict for Acceleration Bay in May, also in Delaware federal court, against video game maker Activision Blizzard in a two patent case—including one of the patents also asserted in the Amazon case. The Activision win, in turn, came just a few months after the team won a whopping $151.5 damages verdict for client Centripetal Networks Inc. in February in the Eastern District of Virginia in a four-patent showdown with Palo Alto Networks.
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