Amy K. Van Zant

Amy Van Zant is of counsel in the firm’s Silicon Valley office and has litigated and advised clients on patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret protection.  Ms. Van Zant has been trial counsel in several patent infringement trials in U.S. District Courts.  She has litigated before the International Trade Commission and has briefed appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Representative Matters

• Ariba v. Emptoris (E.D. Texas).  Representation of Ariba in a patent infringement action regarding on-line auction technology.  Won summary judgment on one patent prior to trial.  The jury returned a verdict of infringement on the other patent, found both patents valid and found one patent willfully infringed.
• Qualcomm Incorporated v. Broadcom, Inc.: Represented Qualcomm in a trade secret dispute in the S.D. Cal.
• GlobespanVirata v. Texas Instruments, Inc. (D. NJ) Obtained a jury verdict of $112 million for Texas Instruments and Stanford University for infringement of patents involving high speed DSL modem technology.
• Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems, Inc. v. Snaptrack, Inc. and QUALCOMM CORP. (S.D. Cal.): Represented SnapTrack and QUALCOMM in this patent infringement action. In 2004, a jury found the clients not liable for infringement of six of the seven claims at issue, and the court granted defendants’ judgment as a matter of law of non-infringement as to the final claim.  Successfully defeated appeal to the Federal Circuit.
• Atmel Corporation v. Agere Systems, Inc., C-03-04632 JCS (N.D. Cal.): Represented Atmel in a patent infringement case involving digital signal processing chips.

Memberships and Affiliations

• State Bar of California

Publications and Speeches

• "Understanding and Surviving ITC Litigation," ACCA Docket (1/24/2002), Author
• "TRIPs Article 32 and the EPC Revisited," Intellectual Property Quarterly (2001), Co-Author
• "The European Patent System and GATT TRIPs, Article 32," Intellectual Property Quarterly (1998), Co-Author