The first virtual bench trial in a patent case ended in a $1.9 billion bang on Monday as U.S. District Judge Henry Morgan of the Eastern District of Virginia issued a 167-page findings of fact and conclusions of law siding with Centripetal Networks Inc. in its showdown with networking giant Cisco Systems Inc over cybersecurity technology.

After eight weeks of trial conducted via Zoom, Morgan found that Cisco willfully infringed five Centripetal patents and awarded 2.5 times the actual past damages of about $750 million. It was a Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel team led by married couple Paul Andre and Lisa Kobialka that brought home that big verdict. Andre and Kobialka, this week’s Litigators of the Week, shared with the Litigation Daily the excitement of handling a trial of many firsts and the joy of showing up for trial wearing tennis shoes.

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