Attorney Alexander Chester Giza's Legal Cases

Patent infringement

Clear with Computers v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., No. 6:09-cv-479 LED (E.D. Tex.)

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OUTCOME: Favorable jury verdict, a damages judgment of $19.5 million, and affirmation on appeal.

Represented patentee Clear with Computers regarding a novel electronic proposal preparation invention

Patent infringement

TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Communications Corp., No. 2-04-cv-01 DF (E.D. Tex.)

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OUTCOME: Favorable jury verdict of willful infringement, a damages judgment of $104 million, a permanent injunction, affirmation in relevant part on appeal, supplemental damages award of $103 million, contempt damages award of over $200 million

Represented patentee TiVo, the developer of the first commercially available DVR, in a patent infringement action

Patent infringement

Digital CBT v. TiVo Inc., Case No. CV12-0618 CJC (C.D. Cal.)

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OUTCOME: Favorable settlement and low costs

Efficiently represented defendant TiVo in a patent litigation

Patent infringement

TQP Development v. Newegg, No. 2:11-cv-248 JRG-RSP (E.D. Tex.)

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OUTCOME: Favorable $2.3 million jury verdict.

Represented patentee TQP regarding a novel encrypted data transmission invention

Intellectual property

Knowles Electronics, LLC v. American Audio Components, Inc., No. 06-cv-6213 JFG (N.D. Ill.)

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OUTCOME: Favorable settlement after 11-day hearing and denial of plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction

Represented defendant AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings Inc., a leading Chinese manufacturer of miniature audio components, in a trade secret case

Patent infringement

Pause Technology LLC v. TiVo Inc., No. 01-cv-11657 PBS (D. Mass.), aff'd, 419 F.3d 1326 (Fed. Cir.)

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OUTCOME: Summary judgment of noninfringement and affirmation on appeal.

Represented defendant TiVo in a patent litigation

Patent infringement

TiVo v. Echostar (Fed. Cir.) (en banc)

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OUTCOME: Five former U.S. federal court judges supported the district court's ruling of contempt, which the Federal Circuit en banc affirmed.

Represented five former U.S. federal court judges (Hon. Stephen G. Larson, Hon. Thomas D. Lambros, Hon. John C. Lifland, Hon. James F. Davis, and Hon. Thomas R. Brett) as amici curiae

Patent infringement

Microsoft v. i4i (U.S. Supreme Court)

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OUTCOME: Six former U.S. PTO and Patent Commissioners advocated for maintaining the clear-and-convincing standard of proof needed to invalidate a U.S. Patent, which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld.

Represented six former U.S. PTO and Patent Commissioners (Hon. Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Hon. Donald J. Quigg, Hon. Harry F. Manbeck, Jr., Hon. Bruce A. Lehman, Hon. Q. Todd Dickinson, and Mr. Nicholas P. ... Godici) as amici curiae

Alexander Chester Giza's Legal Cases (8)

Clear with Computers v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., No. 6:09-cv-479 LED (E.D. Tex.)

TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Communications Corp., No. 2-04-cv-01 DF (E.D. Tex.)

Digital CBT v. TiVo Inc., Case No. CV12-0618 CJC (C.D. Cal.)

TQP Development v. Newegg, No. 2:11-cv-248 JRG-RSP (E.D. Tex.)

Knowles Electronics, LLC v. American Audio Components, Inc., No. 06-cv-6213 JFG (N.D. Ill.)

Pause Technology LLC v. TiVo Inc., No. 01-cv-11657 PBS (D. Mass.), aff'd, 419 F.3d 1326 (Fed. Cir.)

TiVo v. Echostar (Fed. Cir.) (en banc)

Microsoft v. i4i (U.S. Supreme Court)