December 21, 2017
In a blockbuster year defined by complex cases, Keker, Van Nest & Peters’ intellectual property practice kept its approach surprisingly simple, crafting a litigation strategy that emphasized a strong narrative and a diverse team capable of telling it. Read more
October 06, 2017
Longtime California trial staple Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP found success for a wide range of clients this year, winning a nationwide injunction against a presidential executive order, defending Arista Networks in a groundbreaking copyright suit and resolving a feud between two prominent San Francisco philanthropists. Read more
03/17/2017
Keker, Van Nest & Peters secured a $2.8 million jury verdict for TEK Global SRL in a dispute with Sealant Systems Inc. regarding patented tire repair technology. Read more
03/15/2017
Eleven lawyers from two Keker, Van Nest & Peters trial teams representing Google and Arista received California Lawyer of the Year awards from the Daily Journal for intellectual property trial wins. Read more
12/15/2016
After a two-week trial, a San Jose jury has cleared Arista Networks of allegations that it infringed copyrights and patents belonging to Cisco Systems. Read more
12/15/2016
Bob Van Nest cements himself as Silicon Valley’s copyright defense lawyer. Read more
12/05/2016
Bob Van Nest was selected as one of the year's best litigators. Read more
11/07/2016
Jeff Chanin will present "Adapting Litigation Strategies to the Provisions of
the Act." Read more
09/26/2016
Ms. Anderson and Ms. Meny represent the who's who of San Francisco Bay Area technology companies. Read more
09/02/2016
A federal court in Delaware threw out a March 2016 verdict holding that Pure Storage must pay $14 million for violating an EMC software patent. Read more
09/02/2016
The ruling keeps alive Pure Storage’s challenge of the unfavorable verdict in which jurors decided EMC, the largest computer storage company in the world, was owed $14 million in royalties by its rival, a Mountain View, Calif.-based outfit that went public last year. Read more
08/17/2016
Bob Van Nest, Christa Anderson, Ashok Ramani and David Silbert were chosen for their groundbreaking work on behalf of established tech titans and cutting-edge Bay Area startups. Read more
07/12/2016
Gene Paige will provide an overview of the decision, and its potential impact on pending and future IPR proceedings Read more
06/01/2016
Google's lead attorney Robert Van Nest and his team won an epic victory in a courtroom battle between two Silicon Valley giants. Read more
05/15/2016
Ms. Agnolucci works at the forefront of two hot and emerging litigation trends. Read more
05/13/2016
Rachael Meny will discuss how to protect trade secrets, guard against employee raids, recruit from competitors without getting sued, and deal with the important issues that arise when employees leave to compete with their former employers. Read more
April 14-15, 2016
Asim Bhansali will present "Non-Practicing Entities: What's the Big Deal?" Read more
02/26/2016
The awards recognize California litigation practices that delivered exceptional results on their clients' most critical and challenging matters. Read more
02/16/2016
Bob Van Nest, David Silbert, Dan Jackson, and Michelle Ybarra used a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision to prove that patents in lawsuits against Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. were invalid based on subject matter ineligibility. Read more
01/27/2016
Rachael Meny, Jamie Slaughter and their team removed a major threat to Lyft's business model when they settled a proposed class action lawsuit without classifying drivers as employees. Read more
12/03/2015
David Silbert will present at the IP Value Summit. Read more
12/01/2015
Paven Malhotra spoke to Healthcare Risk Management about the potential liability of using 3D printing to create models and even surgical devices that are otherwise unavailable. Read more
11/16/2015
Restaurant delivery app Caviar Inc. won't have to defend its use of independent contractors in court, a federal judge ruled Monday, steering claims against the company into arbitration. Read more
11/04/2015
A California federal court crushed a proposed labor class action against smartphone-based grocery delivery service Instacart by ordering workers to individually arbitrate their claims. Read more
10/09/2015
Robert Van Nest and his team score an important victory in the ITC, winning on all three patents. Read more
09/25/2015
Ms. Meny handles ground-breaking litigation for Lyft, Inc., Netflix, Google and Instacart. Read more
09/23/2015
Ms. Anderson handles complex and high-stakes business litigation for Google, SanDisk, Broadcom, Intel, and other top corporations. Read more
08/10/2015
Securities Partner Michael Celio speaks to The Recorder about the shareholder class action MobileIron is facing related to a 2014 data breach. Read more
07/31/2015
Less than 40 law firm litigators from throughout California were chosen. Winners were selected for handling—and often solving—the most crucial problems tech companies face. Read more
07/23/2015
Paven Malhotra discusses how inventors and businesses must think of IP from an offensive and defensive perspective. Read more
05/27/2015
In Commil USA LLC v. Cisco Systems Inc., the Supreme Court ruled a good faith belief that a patent is invalid is not a defense to induced infringement. Read more
05/20/2015
Paven Malhotra speaks to Computer World about the dramatic increase in litigation the 3D printing world will face. Read more
05/20/2015
Adam Lauridsen will co-chair this annual event for in-house counsel and patent litigators. Read more
05/14/2015
Partners R. James Slaughter, Ashok Ramani and Simona Agnolucci will help the restaurant-delivery app fend off claims it misclassified workers as independent contractors. Read more
05/04/2015
3D printing means a new crop of lawsuits and deals to regulate intellectual property. Keker & Van Nest IP partner Paven Malhotra says that technology making it easier than ever to copy products is already giving rise to a new set of legal issues. Read more
03/25/2015
With a federal judge declaring earlier this month that a jury should decide whether Lyft has been misclassifying drivers as contractors under California state law, the company has beefed up its defense team. Read more
03/19/2015
Ashok Ramani's panel will discuss the price that ordinary citizens pay in the name of cybersecurity. Read more
01/30/2015
A Delaware federal jury found that two patents held by patent holding company Round Rock Research LLC covering flash drives and memory cards were invalid, following an eight-day trial in a patent infringement case against SanDisk Corp. Read more
01/16/2015
While many suits against entrepreneurs can never be foreseen, you can take steps now to protect yourself when waters are calm. Read more
01/13/2015
Gene Paige provides ten things that companies considering engaging in patent litigation outside of the United States should consider before taking action. Read more
01/06/2015
David Silbert and his team score a win for LinkedIn. Read more
12/11/2014
Matthias Kamber will present "Joint/Divided Infringement" at the 15th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute. Read more
12/09/2014
Christa Anderson will present "Litigation and Technology Trends." Read more
12/05/2014
Rachael Meny and Jennifer Huber provide guidance on which prevention strategies and potential defenses businesses can use against privacy class actions. Read more
11/18/2014
Dan Purcell, one of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors. Read more
11/11/2014
Ashok Ramani comments on how the Alice decision will impact NPE lawsuits seeking nuisance fee settlements. Read more
11/04/2014
Stuart Gasner discusses how under the Economic Espionage Act, even the most run-of-the-mill trade secret case can be prosecuted as a criminal matter. Read more
10/21/2014
Ziptronix had asserted nine patents and more than 500 claims over TSMC’s manufacturing of semiconductors. Read more
10/15/2014
Paven Malhotra will present at the New Strategies, Materials and Applications for 3D Printing conference. Read more
10/15/2014
One name mentioned by virtually everyone the Daily Journal spoke to was Keker & Van Nest. Lawyers at some of the best firms in California said they model themselves after the litigation powerhouse. Read more
10/15/2014
On behalf of T-Mobile, Keker & Van Nest defeated High Point SARL's multi-patent infringement case in New Jersey federal court. Read more
09/26/2014
Law360 included Ms. Anderson in its select group of female attorneys for leading the charge in waging high-stakes patent battles and other sophisticated intellectual property litigation. Read more
09/18/2014
Ms. Ta litigates high-stakes cases for technology companies such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), HTC and Impax. Read more
09/16/2014
Rachael Meny and her team protected Netflix Inc. from claims made by a former executive, who believed the company blacklisted him from employment at Amazon. Read more
09/04/2014
Stuart Gasner speaks about when the relationship between venture capital funds and the companies in which they invest unravels. Read more
08/27/2014
Christa Anderson and Jennifer Huber successfully sued patent troll Beneficial Innovations in Marshall, Texas. Read more
08/08/2014
Gene Paige, Christa Anderson and their KVN team convinced a federal judge to invalidate patents as indefinite because they do not provide information about what falls outside the claims. Read more
07/31/2014
Paven Malhotra speaks to Forbes about how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) may be applied in the world of 3D printing. Read more
07/17/2014
Michael Celio and Cody Harris defeat securities class action. Read more
07/16/2014
Michael Celio and Cody Harris secured a complete vindication for Intuitive Surgical Inc., a leading manufacturer of cutting-edge robotic surgery devices, from an aggressive securities class action. Read more
06/24/2014
Sandisk lead counsel Jeff Chanin and his team won a preliminary injunction requiring South Korea-based SK Hynix Inc. to hand over the alleged secrets. Read more
06/17/2014
Judge’s order overwhelmingly favors Amyris, plaintiff abandons case. Read more
June 10-12, 2014
Paven Malhotra will present at the 2014 RAPID Conference, which covers the latest developments, trends and techniques specific to additive manufacturing, rapid technologies, 3D printing and 3D scanning Read more
06/09/2014
The Federal Circuit day affirmed a district court's dismissal of a suit brought by the University of New Mexico's patent arm alleging Intel Corp. infringed a patent for lithographic methods used in semiconductor manufacturing Read more
06/09/2014
Gene Paige analyzes whether patent law may limit academic freedom in the June issue of Intellectual Property Today magazine. Read more
06/02/2014
The Supreme Court ruled the Federal Circuit's long-standing precedent for proving a patent indefinite allowed for too much ambiguity. Mr. Ferrall explains why the decision in Nautilus Inc. v. Biosig Instruments Inc. is significant. Read more
05/27/2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to revive patent infringement claims targeting Google Inc. over its lucrative Adsense program. Read more
05/06/2014
Ashok Ramani, Leo Lam, Gene Paige and other distinguished faculty will share their experience and insight into critical patent litigation topics. Read more
04/29/2014
The Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Circuit's standards for awarding attorneys' fees to prevailing parties in "unreasonable" patent infringement cases must be eased. Read more
04/09/2014
Winners helped to advance technological innovation and chance the law, handling work critical to the future of the technology and other industries. Read more
March 17-18, 2014
Matthias Kamber will be a featured speaker at this annual institute, designed to be of ultimate practice value to all three subgroups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and strategic/transactional lawyers. Read more
02/17/2014
Paven Malhotra examines the implications 3-D printing holds for intellectual property rights. Read more
01/27/2014
On behalf of Google, Christa Anderson and her team successfully sued patent troll Beneficial Innovations Inc. Read more
01/22/2014
In a stunning order, Breyer entered judgment for Electronic Arts in a dispute with video game designer Robin Antonick, who had accused the company of cheating him out of royalties for the wildly popular Madden Football series. Read more
01/21/2014
The news program covered the new documentary, "The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz," and spoke with Swartz’s family, his lawyer Elliot Peters, and filmmaker Brian Knappenberger. Read more
11/05/2013
Matthias Kamber will address this critical topic at the 2013 Litigating Patent Disputes Conference. Read more
11/01/2013
The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed an ITC judge's ruling that Keker & Van Nest's client Netflix Inc.'s streaming software didn't infringe digital entertainment technology company Rovi Corp.'s patented parental control and program guide technology. Read more
07/29/2013
Ms. Anderson was chosen for her proven ability to handle game-changing, law-shaping, market moving work in the technology sector. Read more
07/22/2013
A Delaware federal judge dealt a blow to British Telecommunications PLC in a pair of suits claiming infringement of several of data networking patents it has licensed, tossing the corporation's contracts counterclaims against Cox Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. Read more
06/25/2013
Matthias Kamber explains how recent White House executive actions and proposals targeting frivolous litigation are efforts to treat the symptoms of a broken system rather than cure it. Read more
06/10/2013
The multi-patent case involved novel arguments which tested the ITC's definition of “unfair foreign competition.” Read more
06/07/2013
Paven Malhotra comments on the legal implications of 3D printing technology. Read more
05/28/2013
Paven Malhotra discusses the potential intellectual property litigation which may arise from 3D printing. Read more
04/18/2013
Suffolk Technologies alleged the Google Adsense advertising placement technology infringed one of Suffolk’s patents. Read more
04/01/2013
Law360 honored attorneys under the age of 40 whose accomplishments in major litigation belie their age. Read more
02/22/2013
NBC interviewed Mr. Peters about why the government went after Internet prodigy and activist Aaron Swartz for allegations surrounding computer hacking. Read more
02/11/2013
The Recorder selected Mr. Van Nest for leading the team which defended Google from Oracle's $6 billion copyright and patent claims over technology in the Android operating system. After a six-week trial against formidable opponents, Mr. Van Nest's client was on the hook for precisely $0. Read more
12/07/2012
Bob Van Nest comments on the current Apple/Android wars. Read more
05/23/2012
Keker & Van Nest bested Oracle's legal team, who were unable to secure any significant wins during the multiphase five-week trial. Read more
05/07/2012
Partial verdict in Oracle-Google case seen as setback for Oracle. Read more
11/01/2011
Elliot Peters and David Silbert win a defense verdict from a federal jury in Virginia. Read more
09/23/2011
Led by Ashok Ramani, Keker & Van Nest defeats trademark and unfair competition case. Read more
05/09/2011
Rachael Meny provides five steps companies can take to steps to minimize
the potential litigation risks associated with key employee hires. Read more