Jason George

We represented Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi), a fast-growing online commercial real estate marketplace, in competitor litigation against industry giant CoStar. After CoStar filed a complaint against CREXi alleging copyright violations, we asserted antitrust counterclaims–—supported on appeal by the FTC—alleging that CoStar is an unlawful monopolist. We convinced the Ninth Circuit to reverse its dismissal of our antitrust claims in a unanimous, published opinion.

We won two motions to compel arbitration and defeated two related emergency preliminary injunction motions that were brought by Lyft drivers seeking to be classified as employees rather than contractors during the COVID19 crisis. The district court struck the class allegations, granted our arbitration requests, and then remanded plaintiffs’ injunction request to the San Francisco Superior Court to determine if plaintiffs sought public or private injunctive relief. The superior court denied plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion, ruling that granting the injunction would result in only modest benefits to a small subset of Lyft drivers, while potentially risking the eligibility of all Lyft drivers to receive substantially greater relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

We defended Google against a series of patent cases alleging that Google’s network protocol infringes Jenam’s patents. A three-judge Federal Circuit panel ordered the district court to transfer the case out of the Western District of Texas, ruling that the court abused its discretion by denying Google’s motion to move the case to California. Following the transfer to San Francisco federal court, the firm achieved a stay of all district court proceedings pending inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB. Google successfully invalidated three Jenam patents and the case subsequently settled.