Patente & Geistige Eigentumsrechte Berufungsverfahren

Because intellectual property is at the forefront of your business, it is at the forefront of ours.

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  • In a case called the “World Series of IP cases,” Orrick’s appellate team has secured two stunning rulings for Oracle in their long-running lawsuit against Google. In 2014, Orrick persuaded the Federal Circuit to overturn a 2012 ruling that the thousands of lines of Oracle software that Google copied into its Android operating system had no copyright protection. Reuters called this decision a “HUGE ruling.” This led to a jury trial in which a jury found Google’s copying fair use. In March 2018, Orrick’s appellate team scored their next major victory when the Federal Circuit unanimously overturned the 2016 jury verdict and held Google’s copying not fair use a matter of law. Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC (Fed. Cir. 2014, 2018)
  • Helped persuade a federal district court to wipe out a $2.54 billion damages verdict – the largest patent verdict in history. Following a long running patent dispute and trial over Gilead’s blockbuster Hepatitis C drugs, a jury rejected Gilead’s argument that Idenix’s patent was invalid and awarded Idenix $2.54 billion. The Orrick team worked with the client and co-counsel to persuade the district judge to grant Gilead’s motion for judgment as a matter of law because Idenix’s patent was invalid as a matter of law, leading the court to wipe out the jury’s damages award. Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC et al v. Gilead Sciences Inc. (D. Del. 2018)
  • Persuaded the Supreme Court to allow pharmaceutical companies to study and experiment with drugs covered by other companies’ patents, a ruling that the National Law Journal described as “the most significant patent infringement case to confront the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in a generation.” Merck KGaA v. Integra LifeSciences I, Ltd. (S. Ct. 2005)
  • Defended Carnegie Mellon University in a highly publicized appeal of CMU’s $1.5 billion patent infringement judgment against Marvell Technology. Orrick handled the exceedingly complex appeal in the Federal Circuit, preserving the liability ruling and fending off some of the most serious challenges to damages—all leading to a $750 million settlement for our client. Carnegie Mellon Univ. v. Marvell Tech. Grp. Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2015)
  • Represent Synopsys in multiple interrelated appeals in what The Recorder has called “the holy patent war over chip design software.” The dispute involves six different patent appeals to the Federal Circuit, with Orrick taking the lead in five, and implicate numerous cutting-edge issues of patent law, including critical rules governing the new system for challenging patents, how to calculate certain patent damages, and who may challenge the validity of a patent. Mentor Graphics Corp. v. EVE-USA, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017); Synopsys, Inc. v. Lee (Fed. Cir. 2016); Synopsys, Inc. v. Mentor Graphics Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2016); Mentor Graphics Corp. v. EVE-USA, Inc. (Fed. Cir. Nos. 15-1554, 15-1556); Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Lee (Fed. Cir. No. 13-1669)
  • Adopting nearly all of Orrick’s arguments in its opinion, convinced the Federal Circuit to uphold the district court's determination of non-infringement. Imaginal Systematic, LLC v. Leggett & Platt, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015)
  • Prevailed in three appeals for Dow AgroSciences in a complex and high-stakes patent dispute that threatened one of the company’s most important products, involving herbicide tolerant plants.  Bayer ultimately was ordered to pay Dow nearly $6 million in attorneys’ fees for Dow and Orrick’s victory in the second case.  Orrick defended the award of attorney’s fees on appeal. Bayer CropScience AG v. Dow AgroSciences LLC (Fed. Cir. 2014); Bayer CropScience AG v. Dow AgroSciences LLC (Fed. Cir. 2013); Bayer CropScience AG v. Dow AgroSciences LLC (Fed. Cir. 15-1854)
  • Won what the Washington Post described as a “landmark ruling,” successfully defending DISH Network’s commercial-skipping Hopper technology against copyright claims brought by the major television networks.  Fox Broadcasting Co. v. DISH Network LLC (9th Cir. 2013); Fox Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. DISH Network LLC (9th Cir. 2014); DISH Network LLC v. ABC (2d Cir. 2014)
  • Obtained a win for Nintendo in a high-stakes appeal fending off an effort to block the company’s most important and successful product—the Wii—from the U.S. market. Motiva, LLC v. ITC (Fed. Cir. 2013)
  • Scored, on behalf of EMC Corporation, the definitive pre-America Invents Act opinion addressing the improper use of joinder in patent cases, for which we were named a finalist for American Lawyer’s IP Litigation Department of the Year. In re EMC Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2012)
  • Overturned a contempt finding that had threatened DISH Network’s very existence by ordering it to turn off the recording capabilities of millions of customers. TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2011) (en banc)
  • Earned summary affirmance of a ruling that Intel’s channel erase semiconductor devices did not infringe a patent covering source erase devices.  Fast Memory Erase, LLC v. Intel Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2011)