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Intellectual Property Litigation

Our IP attorneys have extensive experience in copyright, patent, trademark and anti-counterfeiting, trade secret, and right of publicity cases. We also have experience with professional liability and appellate litigation, and legal issues relating to visual art. Our attorneys have been involved in a range of commercial litigation matters, including large-scale business disputes, securities actions, licensing disputes, and consumer class actions. We have handled matters at both the trial and appellate levels and have argued appeals in the California Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit. Our IP litigators have been honored by The Daily Journal "Top 30 Intellectual Property Lawyers in California" and in The Best Lawyers in the Bay Area.

Recent representations include:

Caliper Life Sciences in various patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation actions.
Business Software Alliance in preparing amicus briefs in the Napster, Ellison and Grokster cases for the 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Del Monte in patent infringement litigation relating to pet treats.

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