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Latham & Watkins LLP
The intellectual property litigation practice at Latham & Watkins LLP is an ‘excellent team with highly creative thinkers’ who represent both tech and life sciences clients in patent disputes across all key avenues in the country, including in proceedings at the International Trade Commission as well as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Jeff Homrig in Austin is well-versed in patent infringement and trade secret cases and co-heads the group with Tony Sammi, who is based in New York, and Jennifer Barry, who practices from San Diego. In Washington DC, the group features Michael Morin, who is an expert in life sciences patent disputes and works with clients such as Johnson & Johnson and Regeneron, trial lawyer and patents expert Maximilian Grant, and IP disputes specialist Matthew Moore, who defends major industry players and brands against claims of patent infringement. Also in DC, Gabriel Bell is an expert appellate attorney in the intellectual property space. Key practitioners in the Bay Area group include trial lawyer Douglas Lumish, who represents clients in a wide range of cases relating to IP and tech, skillful IP litigator Patricia Young, and Greg Sobolski, who litigates patent and trade secret matters in a diverse range of industries.
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‘Latham has provided good counsel and good advocacy in patent litigation matters and driven excellent outcomes. I have trust in their counsel and their work product in high stakes patent litigation.’
‘Excellent team with highly creative thinkers. ’
‘Very focused on strategy and how IP litigation can support the business. ’
‘The team did truly work as a team putting forward the best person for the particular task in hand. They also assembled a diverse set of talents covering all aspects of the case. Highly recommended. ’
‘They assembled a team that comprised both highly technical partners as well partners that were clearly highly skilled in advocacy. ’
‘Greg Sobolski and Inge Osman are an excellent team and they have driven good results for us.’
Key clients
- Samvardhana Motherson Reflectec Group Holdings Ltd
- Johnson & Johnson
- Medline Industries, LP
- Irving Consumer Products Limited
- Overhead Door Corporation and GMI Holdings, Inc.
- Disney
- NETGEAR, Inc.
- Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
- InductEV
- Philip Morris
- Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC
- Shenzhen Senior Technology Material
- Stryker Corporation
- Nanosys, Inc.
- Natera, Inc.
- Arista Networks
- Ciena Corporation
- Regeneron
Work highlights
- Represented SMR in litigation against its chief competitor Magna, with a jury invalidating all claims in five patents that Magna had asserted.
- Acted for J&J Surgical Vision in its global patent and copyright infringement dispute against Alcon over competing laser eye-surgery technology.
- Acted for for Irving Consumer Products in defeating three patents asserted by competitor, First Quality, in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.
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Max Grant serves as trial counsel in patent infringement cases and provides strategic business counseling on intellectual property issues. He led Latham & Watkins’ Intellectual Property Litigation Practice from 2009-2014, a period during which the group more than doubled in size and won the Chambers USA Award for Excellence. The group’s strategic development and unique trial capabilities were featured in an article in The Recorder, an ALM publication. Mr. Grant has tried over 20 patent cases and is recognized as an experienced and innovative first chair trial lawyer.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jennifer Barry, Tony Sammi, Jeff Homrig