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 verdict form can be found here.

The complaint can be found here.

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.

A representative brief can be found here.

A response (brief) can be found here.

A representative petition can be found here.