Jones Day
Client SatisfactionJones Day has a full-service intellectual property practice with trial lawyers capable of assisting clients with a wide range of tech and life sciences patent disputes. The group works across a wide range of industry sectors, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and consumer products, and maintains relationships with notable clients including Johnson & Johnson, Qualcomm, and Tineco Intelligent Technology. The patent litigation practice is co-headed by trial lawyer David Maiorana in Cleveland, who has extensive experience acting in competitor disputes, Ryan Walsh in Atlanta, as well as San Diego-based Anthony Insogna, who is the global chair of the firm's IP practice. In Silicon Valley, Greg Lanier is a seasoned trial lawyer who specialises in tech sector infringement cases, having recently represented NXP Semiconductors in a patent infringement dispute against a competitor. The group also includes Sasha Mayergoyz in Chicago, whose broad practice covers a variety of tech patent disputes across all patent litigation forums, and IP litigator Sarah Geers in New York, who frequently represents pharmaceutical companies in a wide range of proceedings, including Hatch-Waxman litigation and jury trials.
Key clients
- Google LLC
- Johnson & Johnson
- DePuy Synthes
- Merck
- NXP
- R.J. Reynolds
- Tineco Intelligent Technology
- Ricoh
- Xilinx
- The NOCO Company
- Qualcomm
Work highlights
- Acted for Merck Sharp & Dohme in a multi-party Hatch-Waxman dispute in which the court sided with Merck on an issue of first impression involving the calculation of Merck’s patent term extension.
- Represented DePuy Synthes, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, in a patent infringement case involving medical devices.
- Represented R.J. Reynolds before the ITC in a patent infringement case against Philip Morris, with the Federal Circuit ruling in Reynolds' favor and keeping Philip Morris' electronic smoking devices off the US market.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Anthony Insogna, David Maiorana, Ryan Walsh