Kramer Levin Wins Managing IP 2025 Impact Case of the Year Award for Landmark Centripetal Networks Case

Category: Announcements
Date: April 28, 2025
Title: Kramer Levin Wins Managing IP 2025 Impact Case of the Year Award for Landmark Centripetal Networks Case

Kramer Levin received an Impact Case of the Year Award at Managing IP's 2025 Gala, for the successful representation of Centripetal Networks Inc. in its lawsuit against Palo Alto Networks. The firm also won this award in 2021 for a similar patent case. The firm was further recognized this year in Managing IP's 2025 shortlist for Firm of the Year for Patent Disputes.

On Jan. 31, 2024, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia awarded our client, Centripetal Networks Inc., $151.5 million in damages, finding that Palo Alto Networks next generation firewalls infringed all four of the Centripetal patents at issue. Centripetal first filed suit against Palo Alto over the patents in 2021.