Maile Yeats-Rowe represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Maile served as a law clerk to Judge Susan L. Carney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Judge Michael H. Simon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.
Maile earned her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and graduated from Scripps College with a B.A. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. During law school, she was active with the Veterans Law Clinic, where she successfully represented veterans seeking to appeal the denial of their claims for disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to law school, Maile served as a Captain in the United States Army, where she worked as a military intelligence officer and deployed to Kuwait and Afghanistan.
In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, we successfully defended Comcast against patent infringement and state-law contract and tort claims brought by Promptu targeting Comcast’s voice recognition and control technology. Following a Markman hearing that resulted in favorable claim constructions across the board, we secured a stipulation of non-infringement and dismissal with prejudice of the remaining claims.
We represented Sutter Health in defeating a qui tam action alleging violation of California's Insurance Frauds Prevention Act in a case related to charges for health care services. Following a seven-week bench trial, we obtained a complete victory. The judge ruled that there was no fraud, that Sutter charged for recovery room care that was “medically ordered, appropriate, and supervised,” and that Sutter’s charges were consistent with standard industry billing practices.
We successfully defended a startup in a trade secret case alleging that it used proprietary information to develop software that would compete with its much larger incumbent rival, fending off a preliminary injunction that would have forced our client to remove its product from the market just as it was launching.
We represented Instacart in a copyright lawsuit against Cornershop, a grocery-delivery company Uber purchased for $500 million. Cornershop launched its U.S. operations in Texas and Florida to compete with Instacart, using Instacart’s copyrighted images, which Cornershop scraped from Instacart’s website. After Instacart filed a complaint alleging claims under the Copyright Act, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, The Texas Harmful Access to Computers Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Cornershop stipulated to a comprehensive permanent injunction under which the company agreed not to scrape, display, publish, reproduce, or distribute any copies or derivatives of any of Instacart’s copyrighted images.
We helped our pro bono client bring claims against the federal government and prison guards related to sexual abuse and retaliation she experienced while incarcerated at a federal correctional institution in Dublin, Calif. We ultimately obtained a significant settlement for our client. Her case also drew the government’s attention to widespread wrongdoing at the federal facility, which was eventually closed following criminal indictments against prison officials.
We represent the PGA TOUR in an antitrust lawsuit filed by 11 professional golfers who left the PGA TOUR and joined LIV Golf. We defeated plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order seeking to force the PGA TOUR to allow them to play in the FedExCup Playoffs. We also recently won a motion to compel subpoena compliance from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and its Governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan.
We are defending Comcast subsidiaries FreeWheel Media and Beeswax.io against infringement claims based on patents directed to targeted advertising brought by AlmondNet in the District of Delaware.
A California state judge has handed Sutter Health a win following a weeks-long bench trial last year over a whistleblower's claims that the nonprofit hospital network violated the state's insurance fraud prevention statutes. Read more