Big firm. Big wins. K&L Gates scored the largest verdict in all of 2012 representing Carnegie Mellon University against Marvell Technology Group Ltd. The firm won a walloping $1.16 billion for Carnegie Mellon in a fight over two patents related to information storage technology.
K&L Gates partners Douglas Greenswag and Patrick McElhinny went up against the formidable Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Following a four-week trial in the Western District of Pennsylvania, a jury found that Marvell had sold billions of chips incorporating the technology without a license, and that the infringement was willful. That finding prompted Judge Nora Barry Fischer to boost the verdict to nearly $1.2 billion.
