Not only do the attorneys at Fenwick & West represent some of the world’s biggest tech companies such as Apple and Facebook, but their work with clients of all sizes last year helped shape the very landscape of intellectual property law.
Take the firm’s defense of online political forum Democratic Underground, the test case for the litigation business model of companies like Righthaven that had filed more than 200 copyright infringement lawsuits in Nevada looking for quick settlements. Righthaven had bought the copyrights from Las Vegas Review-Journal owner Stephens Media before pursuing defendants who had copied portions of the newspaper’s articles.
