Robins, Kaplan, Miller, & Ciresi, L.L.P.

• Represents corporations and individuals in complex commercial disputes.
• Litigation experience in the areas of patent and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, contract disputes and business torts. Technology areas include software and hardware design, mechanical devices, flash memory systems, e-commerce technologies, data encryption, and optical media.
• Experienced in most all aspects of litigation, including claim construction, trial, discovery, non dispositive and dispositive motions.
• Experience in evaluating patent cases involving biofeedback devices, electronic trading systems, and mobile phone technologies.
• Represents a leading provider of broadband access business and consumer products in a copyright infringement action relating to embedded software.
• Represents a worldwide developer and manufacturer of network solutions for broadband communication networks in complex patent infringement actions relating to coaxial cable connectors.
• Represents a leading provider of global e-commerce in a patent infringement action relating to software activation.
• Represented patent holder in complex patent infringement actions related to digital camera technology.
• Represented a U.S.-based multinational corporation in a declaratory judgment action involving the license of optical media technology.
• Represented a U.S.-based multinational corporation in complex patent infringement investigation at the International Trade Commission related to patent infringement related to flash memory technology and related data encryption.
• During law school, taught accounting courses in managerial and intermediate accounting as a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.
• Prior to law school, worked as an assurance manager at KPMG, L.L.P.

Imation Corp. v. Koninklijke Philips Elec. N.V., et al., (Fed. Cir. 2009): Convinced the appellate court to reverse the entry of judgment on the pleadings dismissing two of Imation's key counts, and instead to order judgment for Imation on the question of whether certain entities formed or acquired later qualify as "subsidiaries" that could benefit from Imation's patent license with Philips.

In the Matter of Certain Flash Memory Controllers, ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-619: Represented Imation Corporation in a case of alleged patent infringement related to flash memory technology owned by SanDisk Corporation. The technology is used in several devices, most notably portable USB memory cards.  Based on prior art, the International Trade Commission determined that patent 7,137,011 was invalid for obviousness and that Imation Corporation's products do not infringe the asserted claims.

**Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and does not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.

• Imation Corporation's Trial Victory Upheld by International Trade Commission
• 4 Cos. Don't Infringe SanDisk Flash Patents: ITC