mophie—a top selling mobile battery case for smartphones in North America—received a favorable jury verdict against Serve Global d/b/a SourceVista.com and Dharmesh Shah. At trial, mophie asserted infringement of various copyright and trademarks arising from the sale of counterfeit battery cases. The jury in mophie Inc v. Dharmesh Shah et al (US District Court for the Central District of [...]
The Litigation Group worked with Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, in a positive outcome for client Fairchild Semiconductor Corp in a jury trial involving cross allegations of patent infringement against competitor, Power Integrations, Inc. Fairchild is a leading global supplier of high-performance power semiconductor solutions, and the case involved crucial power conversion […]
Is Your Expert Witness Actually Helping Your Case? The educational process represents one of the most challenging aspects of a complex trial because it is a building block toward persuasion. Trying to teach jurors about complicated information or concepts that they have little or no familiarity with is enormously difficult. In this article, I will […]
We have launched a new website (www.litigationgroup.com). The site includes a bold new design, expanded content and advice for trial teams, and a clean navigation for users. The site is also optimized for mobile devices to allow our clients and prospective clients to better interact with The Litigation Group. We look forward to your responses […]
The list of TLG victories in the last year includes the successful defense in the Apple iPod/iTunes antitrust case in Oakland, California, the defense in a high profile employment case for Anheuser-Busch (St. Louis), the defense in a patent infringement case for Fox Sports (Austin, Texas), a $14 million plaintiff verdict for Mophie in a […]
Apple was found not guilty in December 2014 after an almost ten-year-old antitrust case alleging the company harmed consumers and damaged digital music industry companies when it barred competing music stores’ songs from playing on its IPod music player. The jury found that Apple had the right to make improvements to iTunes software and these […]
A jury found in favor of Fox Sports in a case centering on patent infringement. An Austin, Texas, jury found in May 2014 that Fox Sports, a TLG client, did not infringe on four patents for online simulations of sporting event and also found that the patents were invalid. The Litigation Group worked with the […]
In May 2014, The Litigation Group partnered with the legal team at Anheuser-Busch to defend the company against a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former top-ranking female executive. The Litigation Group did extensive jury research in the case and worked with the trial team on jury communications and presentation strategies. A jury of seven women […]
In October 2014, an eight-person jury in Delaware unanimously awarded Masimo more than $466 million in damages against Philips Electronics North America Corp. for infringing two Masimo patents. The jury also rejected Philips’ challenge to the validity of these patents and Philips’ claim that Masimo owed $169 million for allegedly infringing a Philips’ patent. Masimo’s [...]
What do jurors remember most vividly? The concepts of primacy and recency have long affected jury decisions in a trial. While there are widely accepted benefits to primacy, recency presents numerous opportunities for leveraging opinions. In this article, I will discuss the origin of the primacy-recency debate and show multiple benefits and pitfalls to both […]
