James Day joined Farella Braun + Martel as an intellectual property litigation partner in San Francisco. He was previously a partner at Latham & Watkins. Winston Liaw, previously with Keker & Van Nest, joined Farella’s IP team as an associate. See story online.

Three attorneys broke away from Patterson & Sheridan to become the founding partners of Artegis Law Group. John Carey, Mark Naveson and Mitchel Jones founded the Silicon Valley-based intellectual property law firm. Gregory Suh joined the firm as counsel. Suh was previously senior patent counsel at Advanced Micro Devices.