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Practice Area
Most technology disputes are really disputes about what a contract was supposed to cover. We litigate the ones that are not, and draft to prevent the ones that are.
Practice contacts
We litigate patent and trade secret cases, principally in medical devices, robotics, and industrial control systems, and we handle the licensing and technology transactions that surround them.
Our litigators include lawyers who practiced as engineers. That matters less for the courtroom than for the first month, when someone has to determine whether an accused product actually works the way a complaint alleges, and whether the answer supports the case the client wants to bring.
On the transactional side, an increasing share of the practice concerns data: what a counterparty may do with information supplied to it, what rights attach to a model trained on that information, and what happens to both when the agreement terminates. These are ordinary contract questions that most agreements still fail to answer.
Capabilities
Infringement and validity proceedings, including coordinated actions across multiple jurisdictions and the licensing negotiations that resolve them.
Departing employee and supplier misappropriation claims, injunctive relief, and the forensic work that supports it.
Development, integration, and supply agreements, including allocation of liability for systems that operate autonomously.
Rights in training data, model outputs, and derived datasets, and what survives termination.
Freedom to operate analysis, portfolio review before a transaction, and licensing strategy for owners who do not intend to litigate.
The team
Representative Matters
Industries
Software, devices, and data businesses, and the older companies that have become them.
Providers, device manufacturers, and diagnostics businesses operating under clinical and commercial obligations at once.
Manufacturers, distributors, and consumer businesses, many of them family-controlled.
Speak to the firm
Describe the matter in general terms and name the parties involved. We run a conflicts check, usually within two business days, and a partner in the relevant practice will call you. The first conversation is not charged.