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Electrical, Computer and Mechanical IP

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Our Intellectual Property team holds 38 technical degrees across 22 discrete fields and has a remarkable record of success in patent litigation and PTAB proceedings.
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  • Kramer Levin lawyers help inventors as well as public and private companies optimize, protect and enforce their patents and brands. We are especially known for our impressive record of success in asserting and defending high-stakes patent cases involving electrical, computer and mechanical (ECM) technologies in court and for our effective advocacy before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

    Working in multidisciplinary teams, we represent industry innovators including web security companies; computer software and hardware companies; network systems; and satellite, telecommunications, solar power and cybersecurity firms, offering them strategic guidance to give them a competitive edge in the marketplace. In addition to handling bet-the-company patent litigation in the courts, we have a thriving PTAB litigation practice with an extraordinary record of success in inter partes review proceedings. We also work with ECM clients to maximize protection for their innovations through strategic patent prosecution, as well as advise them on the IP aspects of due diligence, licensing and corporate transactions.

    Composed of registered patent lawyers and agents, our IP team holds 38 technical degrees across 22 discrete fields. We understand our clients’ technologies and have extensive experience in protecting and enforcing our clients’ rights in their innovations. Our lawyers are experienced in addressing issues at the intersection of online commerce, social media, entertainment, technology and law, which informs our ECM patent litigation team’s approach and our strategic legal and technical advice. This skill set also enables us to readily identify the issues, persuasively and coherently explain them at trial, and achieve winning results.

    Defining Matters

    • Kramer Levin Secures Largest Patent Judgment Ever Against Cisco Systems in First Ever Virtual Federal Trial

      On Oct. 5, 2020, Kramer Levin won a major patent litigation case on behalf of Centripetal Networks Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Court found that Cisco Systems Inc. willfully and egregiously infringed four Centripetal patents and awarded Centripetal $1.9 billion in past damages and pre-judgment interest.
    • Kramer Levin Represents Plaintiff in First Virtual Trial in Federal Court

      Kramer Levin is representing plaintiff Centripetal Networks Inc. against Cisco Systems in a multi-patent bench trial that got underway via Zoom, the online video communications platform, due to the pandemic. 
    • Kramer Levin Wins Appeal That Allows Sirius XM to Pursue Attorneys’ Fees After Prevailing in Patent Infringement Lawsuit

      On Tuesday, April 21, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the District of Delaware’s prior order denying Sirius XM Radio Inc.’s motion for attorney fees in the underlying patent litigation Dragon Intellectual Property LLC v. Sirius XM Radio Inc.. 
    • Kramer Levin Secures Request for Rehearing Win before the PTAB for Sirius XM

      The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) has granted Sirius XM Radio, Inc. (“Sirius XM”)’s Requests for Rehearing of its earlier decisions denying four inter partes review Petitions based on Sirius XM’s identification of Real Parties in Interest. Successful Rehearing Requests are exceedingly rare, being granted only about five percent of the time.

    Practice Contacts

      • Jonathan S. Caplan

        • Partner
        • Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
        • New York
        • jcaplan@kramerlevin.com
        • T 212.715.9488
        • F 212.715.7718
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      • Paul J. Andre

        • Partner
        • Managing Partner, Silicon Valley; Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
        • Silicon Valley
        • pandre@kramerlevin.com
        • T 650.752.1710
        • F 650.752.1810
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      • James Hannah

        • Partner
        • Silicon Valley
        • jhannah@kramerlevin.com
        • T 650.752.1712
        • F 650.752.1812
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      • Aaron Frankel

        • Partner
        • Co-Chair, Pro Bono Committee
        • New York
        • afrankel@kramerlevin.com
        • T 212.715.7793
        • F 212.715.8363
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    • Paul J. Andre
    • Jonathan S. Caplan
    • Christina M. Finn
    • Aaron Frankel
    • James Hannah
    • Aakash Jariwala
    • Jeffrey H. Price
  • Perspectives

    • Category
      Announcements
      Date
      April 11, 2017
      Title
      Paul Andre and Jonathan Caplan Appointed Co-chairs of Kramer Levin’s Intellectual Property Practice
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    • Category
      Defining Matters
      Title
      Finjan Gets Boost From Patent License Agreements
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  • Recognition

    Year
    2010 – 2023
    Name
    U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms
    Description
    Ranked in Tier 1 for Intellectual Property Litigation (New York); Recognized for Patent Litigation (National, San Jose); Patent Law (National, New York)
    Year
    2013, 2016-2019
    Name
    Managing Intellectual Property
    Description
    Recommended for Patent Contentious and highly recommended for Copyright
    Year
    2016, 2020
    Name
    Docket Navigator
    Description
    Ranked in Top Ten for PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
    Year
    2015
    Name
    The Daily Journal
    Description
    Named to The Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Finjan Inc.
    Year
    2015
    Name
    National Law Journal
    Description
    Named to National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Prism Technologies
    Year
    2014-2016, 2018
    Name
    Global Law Experts
    Description
    Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year
    Year
    2014-2015
    Name
    Corporate INTL Magazine
    Description
    Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year

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