Cases
Representative Matters: Lead attorney in the defense against seventeen inter partes reviews, including petitions filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Avaya Inc.
LG Electronics, Inc.
Toshiba Corp.
VIZIO, Inc.
Hulu, LLC
FedEx
Bill has won judgments of infringement for his clients
defeated infringement claims against his clients for hundreds of millions of dollars. His representative cases include: Federal District Courts: Alex
er Orensthteyn v. Citrix (SD Fla - 0: 02cv60478) - Won summary judgment of noninfringement
invalidity of patents asserted against a leading remote access provider. Also successfully defended these judgments on appeal to the Federal Circuit
convinced the District Court to enter sanctions against the patent owner
its counsel
NMT Medical, Inc. et al v. Cardia, Inc. (CAFC, D Minn. - 0: 04cv4200) - Convinced the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse
rem
a finding of no infringement against Cardia, a leading medical technology company. Bill then won summary judgment that the defendant's septal occluder medical device infringed his client's patent concerning the treatment of heart defect
Akeva LLC v. Adidas-Salomon AG, et al (ND NC - 1: 03cv1207, CAFC) - Won summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of a worldwide athletic equipment company
then successfully defended that judgment on appeal to the Federal Circuit
Ihance, Inc. v. Eloqua Limited, et al (ED VA - 2: 11cv257) - Convinced District Court to dismiss one of two asserted patents against defendant, a marketing automation SaaS company. This dismissal was quickly followed by a settlement of all remaining claims
Accolade Systems LLC v. Citrix Systems, Inc., et al (ED TX - 6: 07cv48) - Won summary judgment of patent noninfringement in favor of defendant, a remote access
collaboration SaaS company, after the other accused infringers had settled with the plaintiff
International Trade Commission: Certain Communications or Computing Devices
Components Thereof (337-TA-925) - Represented owner of portfolio of communications
computing patents from former enterprise communications business unit of large multinational innovation company. Investigation was instituted in August 2014 as to respondent entities Apple, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics
HTC Corporation. Google participated as an intervenor. The investigation resolved prior to evidentiary hearing.
Certain Consumer Electronics with Display
Processing Capabilities (337-TA-884) - Represented investors in the patent portfolio of the original Silicon Graphics, now known as Graphics Properties Holdings, as complainant in the International Trade Commission. Investigation was instituted in June 2013
among the respondent entities were Panasonic, Toshiba, Vizio,
ZTE. Most respondents settled. The ITC hearing was held over several days in May 2014,
on August 29, 2014 Mintz Levin successfully obtained a recommendation for a Limited Exclusion Order against the remaining respondent, which chose to settle while Commission review of the Administrative Law Judge's was pending.
