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Round Rock Hit with Declaratory Judgment Suit as New Infringement Complaints Pile Up
Publication Date: 2011-10-31
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It's been a busy couple of weeks for John Desmarais, the former Kirkland & Ellis partner who launched the patent licensing company Round Rock Research last year. Round Rock filed four new patent infringement complaints against five companies, and it was hit with its first declamatory judgment suit by a would-be licensee, SanDisk Corporation.

February 01, 2012 |

Deals in Brief

Private equity firms had an active if challenging year in 2011.
3 minute read
November 24, 2008 |

How Refco Probe Snagged Mayer Brown

21 minute read
March 29, 2012 |

Boutique Firms Mean Freedom of Choice for IP Litigators

Tired of being conflicted out of lucrative patent work, some IP litigators are leaving big firms to start their own boutiques. They want more freedom to choose their own clients, and maybe a piece of the action. Recent years have seen the emergence of a "robust secondary and tertiary market for patent sales and acquisitions and enforcement," says Matthew Powers, at Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
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May 30, 2008 |

Accounting regulation may be a vote away from disarray

So much for the notion that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Two years ago, a tiny Las Vegas accounting firm called Beckstead Watts LLP filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board, after receiving an unflattering report card from the auditing profession's fledgling regulator.
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February 23, 2012 |

Free Agents

Tired of being conflicted out of lucrative plaintiffs-side patent work, some IP litigators are leaving big firms to start their own boutiques. They want more freedom to choose their own clients-and maybe a piece of the action.
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March 28, 2012 |

Boutique Firms Mean Freedom of Choice for IP Litigators

Tired of being conflicted out of lucrative patent work, some IP litigators are leaving big firms to start their own boutiques. They want more freedom to choose their own clients, and maybe a piece of the action.
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August 19, 2009 |

Insurance litigator Oshinsky jumps ship again, to Jenner & Block

Veteran insurance coverage litigator Jerold Oshinsky, a former name partner of Washington's Dickstein Shapiro, has joined Jenner & Block's Los Angeles office just 10 months after teaming with colleague Scott Gilbert to launch a Southern California office for their firm. Oshinsky, who represents policyholders in various industries, said he left Gilbert Oshinsky to join a firm with a bigger national presence.
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March 28, 2012 |

Big Suits

U.S. v. Countrywide et al.; Novartis Wage and Hour Litigation; Irving H. Picard, Trustee v. Sonja Kohn et al.; Texas v. Janssen; Parmalat Capital Finance v. Grant Thornton et al.; Silverman v. Motorola, Inc. et al.
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John Desmarais Turns Troll: Former K&E Partner's New Firm Debuts in Eastern Texas, Asserting Old IV Patent
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
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Apparently Desmarais's new patent enforcement business isn't just working with IP he acquired from Micron. Joe Mullin's got the scoop at Corporate Counsel.

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