Puja Parikh represents clients in all facets of intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. She regularly litigates patent, trade secret, and copyright matters in federal court. Among her recent engagements, Puja served as trial counsel for Dexcom in a complex patent dispute, trial counsel for Meta in a patent infringement suit, and she obtained a permanent injunction on behalf of Instacart in a plaintiff-side copyright lawsuit. On the verge of trial, she also secured a settlement on behalf of a pre-trial detainee for an excessive force violation by staff at the San Francisco County Jails as part of her pro bono work.
Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Puja served as a judicial law clerk to Judge John K. Bush of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to Chief Judge Theresa Springmann of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Puja formerly worked as a litigation associate in the New York office of an international law firm where she defended a Fortune 500 company in a multimillion dollar complex commercial case, served on a trial team for a public company facing suit in state court for breach of fiduciary duty, and represented other clients in commercial, securities, and white collar matters, including SEC and DOJ investigations. She maintained an active pro bono practice in which she represented a client in Immigration Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals who sought asylum in the United States from Guatemala.
Puja earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School and her B.A. in Political Science and Psychology with honors from the University of Notre Dame. During law school, Puja conducted trials in Ithaca City Court as part of the Prosecution Trial Clinic and coached the Cornell Mock Trial Team.
Abbott Diabetes Care v. Dexcom
We defended Dexcom in the District of Delaware where Abbott asserted a dozen patents targeting Dexcom’s G6 continuous glucose monitoring technology. The Keker team narrowed the case to four patents prior to trial, including by invalidating an Abbott patent at summary judgment, and excluded Abbott’s expert testimony regarding reasonable royalty damages. Following a two-week trial, the jury invalidated another Abbott patent and found two were not infringed. The Court also declined to let the Jury consider damages on the remaining patent, cementing a defense victory for the Keker trial team.
Instacart V. Cornershop Technologies
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.
02/18/2025
Keker, Van Nest & Peters partners Bob Van Nest, Sharif Jacob, Sophie Hood and Ryan Wong reflect on the firm’s biggest trial wins which earned its place among Law360’s 2024 Trials Groups of the Year. Read more
08/15/2024
The 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America featured 25 KVP attorneys. Read more
03/22/2024
Law360 has reported that a Delaware federal jury has cleared Dexcom, represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters, of infringing two glucose monitor patents owned by an Abbott Laboratories unit, while finding infringement of one that was not willful. It hung on a fourth. The trial was overseen by Third Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan in the U.S. District of Delaware, who decided a second trial will be held to determine any damages. Read more
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