Try enough cases for defendants in the Eastern District of Texas and you’ll likely taste defeat. Just ask Jeff Randall of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.
Last year, when Randall was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, he won a defense verdict for Sun Microsystems in his first trial in the famously pro-plaintiff jurisdiction. But on Friday, he was on the losing side as counsel to Apple. After a week-long trial in Tyler, the jury found that Apple willfully infringed three patents involving how documents are displayed on a computer screen. The patents are owned by Mirror Worlds, a software business founded by Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter.
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