Accomplishments
Since our founding, some of our accomplishments include:
  • As lead trial counsel for Sun Microsystems, Inc.in its antitrust, copyright, and unfair competition suit against Microsoft, Inc, obtained a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to ship a Sun-compatible, Java Virtual Machine with each copy of its Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser.
  • Obtaining, on behalf of Amgen, a ruling from the District Court of Massachusetts that Transkaryotic Therapies' development of human erythropoietin infringes three of Amgen's patents on its best selling anti-anemia drug, Epogen®.
  • Obtaining, on behalf of Sun, three preliminary injunctions against Microsoft Corporation for trademark infringement, copyright infringement, and unfair competition arising out of Microsoft's distribution of Windows98 and other products that incorporate unauthorized implementations of Sun's JAVA® technology.
  • Obtaining judgment that Amgen's activities regarding its manufacture and sale of Neupogen do not infringe Biogen's U.S. Patents.
  • Affirming on appeal to the Federal Circuit an earlier trial court judgment on behalf of Sun that invalidated broad patent claims to methods for exchange of data between incompatible computers over a network.
  • Establishing, on behalf of Amgen, exclusive worldwide marketing rights to a new $2 billion erythropoietic stimulating factor following a two-month trial.