The team’s enforcement campaigns have included lawsuits in the United States, Europe and Asia involving both patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation. Cook Alciati, a Gardella Aciati principal, has experience specifically in complex commercial litigation, patent litigation, trade secret litigation, and trademark and copyright litigation. His experience spans a broad range of technologies, including aseptic processing, cloud computing, electronics, consumer products and medical devices, including implantable devices, wound closure devices and obesity treatment devices. His unique understanding of clients’ needs and concerns come from years of in-house experience. Mr Gardella was lead architect of several US and international bet-the-company enforcement efforts. These campaigns have involved lawsuits in the United States, Europe and Asia involving both patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation.

Gardella Alciati professionals are known for handling many of the highest-stakes post-grant matters ever adjudicated by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Greg H Gardella, the firm’s president, has served as lead counsel for both challengers and patent owners in matters having stakes running into the billions of dollars – for example, he successfully defended the famous TiVo DVR patent, which generated well over $1 billion in licensing revenue. On the challenger side, Mr Gardella prevailed for St Jude Medical in an array of post-grant proceedings targeting numerous Medtronic patents directed to renal denervation. He has also prevailed in a wide variety of proceedings for Oracle, eBay and Roche Molecular Diagnostics.

Patent, trademark and copyright procurement is one of Gardella Alciati’s core competencies, and our approach is vastly different from most other firms. Because we litigate and prosecute (procure) these IP assets, our philosophy is fundamentally different. We carefully design each IP asset to serve a specific role, with the aim of developing complementary IP assets that are not only robust but also provide critical redundancy. The vast majority of practitioners do only litigation or only prosecution, and as a result they lack the perspective and experience necessary to achieve comparable results. The quality and effectiveness of our patent, trademark and copyright is reflected in our litigation track record. Please see our Representative Cases or contact us to learn more.

Trade secrets are largely complementary to patent rights and are often an indispensable component of Gardella Alciati’s intellectual property strategy.
We find that for many clients, trade secrets are often more valuable than patent rights. As such, we develop and deploy trade secret policies and training and, when necessary, bring district court actions for misappropriation of
trade secrets.

Gardella Alciati professionals have taken the lead on various large IP centric deals, including the recent acquisition of a firm client for almost one billion US dollars which was based largely on the value of the client’s IP portfolio. We have decades of experience in negotiating and drafting out-bound and in-bound license agreements. Many of Gardella Alciati’s clients also have strategic business partners with which they work collaboratively to develop key intellectual property; many of the agreements we negotiate are in the context of such joint development efforts. The firm also crafts settlement agreements as an extension of successful patent and trade secret enforcement efforts. Further, many corporate clients are advised on the IP aspects of employment and supply agreements.