What are some of the department's most satisfying successes of the past year and why? One of the most satisfying aspects of Kirkland's business is the diversity of our client base and the wide range of matters they entrust to us. Highlights include representing Heineken in offensive and defensive wins at the ITC against longtime rival Anheuser-Busch InBev regarding Heineken's innovative beer dispensing line. In another ITC victory, Kirkland won an initial non-infringement determination for its leading mobile device client on five patents allegedly essential to the 3G and 4G standards. In that case, the ALJ also found that complainant failed to offer our client a license on FRAND terms. Other successes include obtaining Federal Circuit affirmance of a rare summary-judgment win of non-infringement in the Eastern District of Texas on behalf of AT&T; fending off a preliminary injunction against a client that provides custom golf club fittings; securing a permanent injunction on behalf of Fox News; and winning summary judgment on behalf of a video game company in a first-of-its-kind case involving the depiction of tattoos in video games.

The group also remains deeply committed to pro bono work. IP attorneys from the New York office recently successfully represented a victim of sex trafficking in obtaining a T-1 visa.