Gardella Alciati recently settled on behalf its client ThroughPuter, Inc. an international patent dispute with Microsoft. We pursued multiple infringement actions against Microsoft Corporation, one in the Western District of Washington and the other in the United Kingdom. In the Washington case, Gardella Alciati defeated Microsoft’s inter partes review petitions targeting nine out of the eleven patents and the case was heading towards trial. The United Kingdom case was also progressing and was set for trial earlier, in March 2025. Approximately one month before trial was set to begin in the United Kingdom, Microsoft agreed to take a license to the ThroughPuter patents on favorable terms. This was a fantastic result for our client ThroughPuter.

Led by Principal Cook Alciati, we obtained a verdict of more than $38 million (plus an amount of prejudgment interest to be determined) in favor of its client Steuben Foods, Inc. following a week-long jury trial before Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. The jury found all six asserted claims infringed and not invalid and awarded the full amount of damages requested. The verdict came after 10 years of litigation where Greg Gardella worked with Mr. Alciati to defend the validity of the patents-in-suit through both reexamination and inter partes review—more than twenty PTO proceedings in total. On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed the jury’s infringement verdict as to the most valuable claims. Mr. Alciati handled all briefing and argument at the Federal Circuit.

The verdict form can be found here.

Led by Principal Cook Alciati, we acted as lead counsel for Hilti AG in a dispute with its most fierce direct competitor. Hilti asserted fourteen patents across three cases. Hilti’s competitor asserted two patents against Hilti. Gardella Alciati successfully obtained institution of inter partes review of the two patents asserted against Hilti, winning a stay of the district court case against Hilti. The overall dispute settled shortly thereafter. Following the suit, Hilti’s direct competitor pulled two of the accused devices from the market, essentially providing Hilti with an injunction.

The complaint can be found here.

Here again, we refined and sharpened a portfolio of patents directed to novel medical devices. Then our team, led by Principal Cook Alciati, successfully enforced the new patents and related trade secrets in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.  The last defendant settled day before trial resulting in a seven figure settlement that equated to a 60 percent royalty on sales of the accused product.  Principal Greg Gardella led the prosecution effort after taking over the portfolio just a few years before patent expiration and led the effort at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to defeat multiple petitions for inter partes review, which were denied before institution.

The inter partes review brief (Patent Owner Preliminary Response) can be found here.

A representative complaint can be found here.

A representative reexamination request can be found here.

We filed twelve inter partes review petitions on behalf of biotechnology company 10X Genomics, Inc. against five patents asserted by Bio-Rad in parallel ITC and district court cases. Our team also filed three reexamination requests against patents asserted by Bio-Rad. In a victory for 10X Genomics, all reexamination requests were granted as to every ground and every claim.

A representative request for reexamination can be found here.

A representative petition can be found here.

Our professionals represented patent owner and aseptic food and beverage manufacturer Steuben Foods in cases involving aseptic bottling technology used by Nestle USA to package more than 2 billion bottles per year. Our team defended ten inter partes review proceedings filed against five patents and prevailed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in eight out of the ten cases.

A representative brief can be found here.

This case involved TiVo’s seminal “time warp” patent on DVR technology. Our team assumed responsibility for the matter after the patent had been finally rejected in a reexamination. Our professionals introduced new evidence and obtained complete reversal of the final rejection. After the patent was affirmed, TiVo collected more than $1 billion in licensing revenue from DishNetworks, Verizon, Microsoft, Cisco and others.

A response (brief) can be found here.

Our team served as lead counsel for computer software company Oracle Corp. in more than a dozen inter partes review proceedings in which all petitions were granted. We also negotiated an immediate and very favorite settlement for the company.

A representative petition can be found here.