San Rafael, CA
Litigation Lawyer at San Rafael, CA
Practice Areas: Litigation, Intellectual Property ... +6 more
OUTCOME: Pending
2:12-md-02311 (E.D. Mich 2012). Special Counsel to the three co-Lead Counsel for the Dealership Plaintiffs in scores of antitrust cases that are an outgrowth of one of the largest international crimina ... l antitrust investigations in history--in fact, the largest in the history of the United States Department of Justice.
OUTCOME: Settlement after mediation
Alleged securities fraud for non-disclosure of error in computer code of quantitative investment model used to manage client assets
OUTCOME: Reversed negative factual findings by Tokyo District Court that pocket stitch design not subject to protection.
Appeal to Tokyo High Court of Tokyo District Court decision that the arcuate stitch on Levi Strauss' pockets was not distinctive or well known enough to receive protection. High Court found that arcuat ... e stitch design was distinctive and well known and enjoined Edwin from making jeans with similar pocket stitching.
OUTCOME: Reversed negative factual findings by Tokyo District Court but precluded by laches.
Appeal to Tokyo High Court of Tokyo District Court decision that the Les Paul design was not distinctive or well known to receive protection. High Court found guitar shape distinctive and well known an ... d that had Gibson acted earlier it could have sought recovery for dilution.
OUTCOME: Represented Japanese ultrasound diagnostic equipment maker in trade secret litigation brought by Acuson. Appeals Court decision reversed a preliminary injunction and confirmed the right to reverse engineer unpatented designs.
209 Cal.App.3d 425 (subsequently decertified), 10 U.S.P.Q.2d 1814 (1989).
OUTCOME: Successful action to protect Playboy's word mark as a magazine title.
JPO Trial Decision of June 26, 2003 (Igi 2002-90016).
OUTCOME: Successful action against Japanese company attempting to register a trademark for a variant of Playboy's Rabbit Head device.
JPO Trial Decision of April 3, 2000 (Igi 1999-90433).
OUTCOME: Represented world's largest maker of micro motors (Mabuchi) against the second largest maker of such motors (Johnson) in a series of patent lawsuits in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Taiwan and Hong Kong against motor designs.
878 F.2d 1445 (Fed. Cir. 1989), 979 F.2d 215 (Fed. Cir. 1992), 77 F.Supp.2d 446 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), 98 F.Supp.2d 480 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).
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