Intellectual Property
With hundreds of IP cases across the country, we specialize in making the complex simple and understandable. From semiconductors to biotechnology, intellectual property cases rest on your ability to simply convey complex concepts to a jury of ordinary people—from Markmans, to focus groups, to trial—let us help you present your best case.
The Focal Point teamed up again with longtime client Cooley LLP to successfully assert a portfolio of patents concerning serialized PCI communications within blade servers.
The ITC ruled in favor of The Focal Point’s client, Amkor Technology, finding rival packaging supplier Carsem violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act and infringed Amkor’s MicroLeadFrame patent.
The jury unanimously agreed that counsel Keker & Van Nest had met the burden of “clear and convincing evidence” and found for Genentech on all counts.
The Focal Point teamed up with Cooley to help Vistaprint win a rare patent case defense victory in the Eastern District of Texas.
The Focal Point teamed up again with the attorneys at Fulbright & Jaworski and local counsel to attain favorable results in a patent infringement suit against a host of large high tech companies such as Nortel, Nokia, Cisco Systems, and Ericsson.
Harris Corporation asserted its patented technology and received a $61 million jury verdict.
Described by Fortune magazine as “the biggest patent case ever,” Microsoft paid $440 million to The Focal Point's client.
A jury in the Northern District of Texas found that Glycobiotics willfully infringed a patent owned by Mannatech.
Accused infringer, Bridge Medical, recently prevailed in a long-standing patent infringement dispute brought by McKesson Information Systems.
The Focal Point worked with trial teams from Cooley Godward Kronish and Latham & Watkins to develop graphics that helped MPS win a full-Defense verdict in a patent infringement suit brought against them by O2 Micro International Limited.
Positive Technologies, and the sole inventor of a patent on LCD display technology, Robert Hotto, sued numerous makers of LCD screens claiming that its novel way of driving the liquid crystals was being infringed.
Jeffrey Chanin, the lead attorney at Keker & Van Nest LLP representing TSMC, said the case amounted to “the biggest case of wholesale corporate espionage” he had ever encountered.
The Focal Point worked with attorneys at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff to win a hotly contested patent infringement suit against the first member of a Joint Defense Group—comprised of several companies which are involved in suits with Trading Technologies International, Inc.
The Focal Point joined forces with Farella Braun + Martell LLP to successfully assert two patents concerning flip chip voltage regulators held by Bay Area startup, Volterra Semiconductor Corp.
Graphics and animations, teaching everything from patent law to digital logic concepts, to chip-making specifications, and to the actual claims at issue, were created for lawyers and experts.
In late 2009, Zynga sued rival game startup Playdom for, among other things, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of the duty of loyalty, tortious interference with contracts, tortious interference with existing and prospective economic advantage and unfair competition.
