Gayatri Paranjape represents clients in complex commercial litigation. Before joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, she clerked for Judge Richard G. Andrews of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and for Judge Cindy K. Chung of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Gayatri earned her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she contributed to the California Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. Gayatri graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and additional majors in Biomedical Engineering and Philosophy.
Prior to law school, Gayatri worked as an associate scientist at Procter & Gamble, applying reliability engineering to optimize manufacturing lines.
We represented Google in defeating a patent infringement suit brought by B.E. Technology over targeted advertising technologies. After multiple claims were invalidated through inter partes review proceedings, the Delaware court then granted summary judgment on the final remaining claim, holding it invalid under Section 101 of the Patent Act as directed to an abstract idea that lacked any inventive concept. The ruling resolved the case in full just weeks before trial.
A federal court today entered a final judgment in favor of Google, dismissing the final remaining patent claim in litigation brought by Big Easy Technology LLC (“B.E. Tech”), effectively ending the case. Read more