Highlights from over 20 years of experience.

The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of The Focal Point's client, Amkor Technology, and found that rival packaging supplier Carsem violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act in the importation and sale of devices that 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 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.

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. The jury determined that MPS did not literally infringe the asserted patent claims, and that O2 Micro's patent is invalid.

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. A key challenge for the trial team was helping jurors understand and appreciate the extremely complex and detailed manufacturing processes and recipes of the technology at issue.

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. Trading Technologies' patents were validated which sent an important statement to all future Defendants.

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.