Intellectual Property

• Appointed by the Federal Court as Discovery Referee in an intellectual property claim involving a prominent manufacturer of disk drives
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court in two (2) separate matters involving patent infringement in connection with sophisticated chip technology
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court as Special Master in two (2) matters involving theft of trade secrets with regard to chip manufacturing
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court in a matter involving trade secrets and patent violations between manufacturers of e-readers
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court in a multiparty matter involving Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court in a multiparty litigation, involving counsel from six (6) states, regarding trade secret and patent allegations against six (6) of Silicon Valley’s most prominent technology companies
  

• Appointed by the Federal Court as Special Master in a multiparty claim involving patent infringement, with defense assertions that claimants were ‘trolls’
  

• Mediated a case involving claimed theft of a customer list and unfair competition
  

• Mediated a dispute between two large equipment rental companies involving claims of theft of customer lists and unfair competition