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Intellectual Property

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More than 45 lawyers firmwide, including our entire Silicon Valley office, are devoted to intellectual property matters, making Kramer Levin’s IP department one of the largest among full-service firms.
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  • Kramer Levin's litigation-focused Intellectual Property team regularly asserts and defends IP-related claims in courts throughout the United States and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Well known for our success in the courtroom, including in many high-stakes patent litigation cases, we also advise clients on worldwide IP portfolio management and IP-based transactions. Our team covers all aspects of electrical, computer and mechanical technologies as well as large- and small-molecule pharmaceuticals.

    We employ a unique blend of legal acumen, business orientation, technical knowledge and litigation focus that fosters creative thinking and exploration of alternative theories. This approach often has a decisive impact on case outcomes and has contributed to our remarkable record of successes in the areas of cybersecurity, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, and medical devices.

    Our IP team takes a creative, proactive approach to every assignment, meeting challenges with practical solutions and helping our clients leverage opportunities through strategic licensing transactions, creative alliances and technology transfers. 

    Our principal areas of focus: 

    • Patent Litigation
    • Post-Grant Proceedings
    • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
    • Licensing Agreements and Corporate Transactions
    • Trademarks, Copyrights and Unfair Competition

    Whether we are called on to serve as counselor, warrior, peacekeeper or problem-solver, we focus on responding to our clients’ needs, removing barriers to their success, and helping them protect and optimize the value of their intellectual property.

    Defining Matters

    • Kramer Levin Wins Appeal That Allows Sirius XM to Pursue Attorneys’ Fees After Prevailing in Patent Infringement Lawsuit

      On Tuesday, April 21, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the District of Delaware’s prior order denying Sirius XM Radio Inc.’s motion for attorney fees in the underlying patent litigation Dragon Intellectual Property LLC v. Sirius XM Radio Inc..
    • Kramer Levin Secures Request for Rehearing Win before the PTAB for Sirius XM

      The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) has granted Sirius XM Radio, Inc. (“Sirius XM”)’s Requests for Rehearing of its earlier decisions denying four inter partes review Petitions based on Sirius XM’s identification of Real Parties in Interest. Successful Rehearing Requests are exceedingly rare, being granted only about five percent of the time.
    • Centripetal Lead Counsel Switch Leads to Successful Patent Settlement

      In a classic example of David versus Goliath, our patent litigation team recently scored a major victory for Centripetal Networks Inc., a small cybersecurity startup, against Keysight Technologies Inc. and Ixia, on patent infringement for four patents that Centripetal owns.

    Focus Areas

    • Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection
    • Electrical, Computer and Mechanical IP
    • Licensing Agreements and Corporate Transactions
    • Life Sciences
    • Patent Litigation
    • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
    • Post-Grant Proceedings
    • Technology and IP Transactions
    • Trade Secret Litigation
    • Trademarks, Copyrights and Unfair Competition

    Practice Contacts

      • Jonathan S. Caplan

        • Partner
        • Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
        • New York
        • jcaplan@kramerlevin.com
        • T 212.715.9488
        • F 212.715.7718
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      • Paul J. Andre

        • Partner
        • Managing Partner, Silicon Valley; Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
        • Silicon Valley
        • pandre@kramerlevin.com
        • T 650.752.1710
        • F 650.752.1810
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    • Peter A. Abruzzese
    • Dana Anderson
    • Paul J. Andre
    • Mark A. Baghdassarian
    • Missy G. Brenner
    • Violaine Brunet
    • Jonathan S. Caplan
    • Jeffrey Coleman, Ph.D.
    • Marcus A. Colucci
    • Jeffrey G. Eng
    • Roy T. Englert, Jr.
    • Roxanne Evande, Ph.D.
    • Zachary B. Fields
    • Christina M. Finn
    • Aaron Frankel
    • Jenna Fuller
    • Girija Gaur, Ph.D.
    • Jennifer L. Gilbert
    • James Hannah
    • Zehra Jafri
    • Aakash Jariwala
    • Kristopher B. Kastens
    • Charles Keller
    • Sabah Khokhar
    • Lisa Kobialka
    • Ariel N. Lavinbuk
    • Timothy Layden
    • Michael Lee
    • Ester Levy
    • Allyson Li
    • Austin Manes
    • Cristina L. Martinez
    • Jacqueline Momah
    • Kevin M. Moss
    • Kenneth Mueller Ph.D.
    • Pooja Parekh
    • Brittany Penn
    • André Pineda, Ph.D.
    • Jeffrey H. Price
    • Ed Purdue, Ph.D.
    • Shreya Ramchandani
    • Elisa Santos
    • Nadya Shirokova, Ph.D.
    • Ruth Silimon, Ph.D.
    • Melissa B. Thompson
    • Carlos J. Tirado
    • Morgan E. Visoso
    • Benu Mehra Wells
    • Christian Wettre
    • Long Yang, Ph.D.
    • Dean M. Yu
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      Speaking Engagement
      Date
      March 19, 2025
      Title
      American Conference Institute's Third Annual Advanced Therapeutics Forum
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      Feb. 05, 2025
      Title
      Patexia Recognizes Kramer Levin, Paul J. Andre, James Hannah, Kristopher B. Kastens and Lisa Kobialka for Patent Litigation
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      Jan. 22, 2025
      Title
      The Road Ahead: The USPTO Launches Five-Part Artificial Intelligence Strategy
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      Nov. 20, 2024
      Title
      CenterForce: Maximizing Value: IP Enforcement & Monetization Strategies
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      Date
      Nov. 12, 2024
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      CenterForce: Maximizing Value: IP Enforcement & Monetization Strategies
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      Nov. 12, 2024
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      Jennifer L. Gilbert Receives 2024 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award
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      Oct. 24, 2024
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      2024 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 90 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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      Oct. 23, 2024
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      AmLaw Litigation Daily Interview: How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries
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      Oct. 07, 2024
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      Kramer Levin Team Named to Law360's "Legal Lions of the Week" List
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      Oct. 03, 2024
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      Sept. 10, 2024
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      JPPCLE: Brumfield v. IBG LLC
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      Aug. 15, 2024
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      July 19, 2024
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      May 10, 2024
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      Date
      May 06, 2024
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      Kramer Levin Secures $23.4M Patent Infringement Verdict on Behalf of Acceleration Bay
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      Date
      May 01, 2024
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      Speaking Engagement
      Date
      March 20, 2024
      Title
      American Conference Institute’s 2nd Annual Forum on IP, Funding and Tech Strategies for Novel Therapeutic Modalities
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      Defining Matters
      Date
      Feb. 01, 2024
      Title
      Kramer Levin Secures $151.5M Judgment for Centripetal in Cybersecurity Patent Case
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      Jan. 03, 2024
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      Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ Shows AI’s Perils With Lax Legal Rules
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      Dec. 05, 2023
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      Date
      Nov. 01, 2023
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      Centerforce’s IP Strategy Summit - 2023
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      Date
      Oct. 25, 2023
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      Centerforce’s IP Strategy Summit
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      Oct. 18, 2023
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      Oct. 17, 2023
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      Sept. 22, 2023
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      Date
      Sept. 10, 2023
      Title
      Intellectual Property Owners Association’s 2023 Annual Meeting
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      Sept. 07, 2023
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  • Recognition

    Year
    2010 – 2025
    Name
    U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms
    Description
    Ranked in Tier 1 for Intellectual Property Litigation (New York); Recognized for Patent Litigation (National, San Jose, San Francisco); Patent Law (National, New York)
    Year
    2023 — 2024
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    Chambers USA
    Description
    Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation (New York)
    Year
    2022
    Name
    Benchmark Litigation: Law Firm of the Year for New York
    Year
    2021
    Name
    Law360: Practice Group of the Year
    Year
    2021
    Name
    Managing IP's Impact Case of the Year Award
    Description
    Centripetal Networks v. Cisco Systems
    Year
    2016, 2020
    Name
    Docket Navigator
    Description
    Ranked in Top Ten for PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
    Year
    2013, 2016-2019
    Name
    Managing Intellectual Property
    Description
    Recommended for Patent Contentious and highly recommended for Copyright
    Year
    2014-2016, 2018
    Name
    Global Law Experts
    Description
    Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year
    Year
    2015
    Name
    The Daily Journal
    Description
    Named to The Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Finjan Inc.
    Year
    2015
    Name
    National Law Journal
    Description
    Named to National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Prism Technologies
    Year
    2014-2015
    Name
    Corporate INTL Magazine
    Description
    Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year

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