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24 Jan 2012, 10:34 am by Global General Counsel
They have to slog it out to win against the other side, or pay (to settle, or in a loss).I have been on the other side to both John Desmarais (Alcatel-Lucent v Foundry Networks), and Matt Powers, (Immersion v Sony Computer Entertainment). [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 7:35 am by Ashby Jones
Three years ago, had you asked just about anyone with knowledge of the patent bar for a list of the top five patent-defense litigators, chances are you’d hear the names John Desmarais (pictured) and Matt Powers. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 1:29 pm by Law Shucks
They'll focus on contingent-fee plaintiff work, although at some point they may go fully over to the dark side, a la John Desmarais, the former Kirkland & Ellis partner who last year founded his very own patent troll by buying a bloc of patents and selling covenants not to sue. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 1:29 pm by Law Shucks
They'll focus on contingent-fee plaintiff work, although at some point they may go fully over to the dark side, a la John Desmarais, the former Kirkland & Ellis partner who last year founded his very own patent troll by buying a bloc of patents and selling covenants not to sue. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 5:48 am by Rob Robinson
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23 Jun 2011, 11:00 pm by Jeffrey Richardson
Christina DesMarais of Inc. recommends apps that make your iPad work like a laptop. [read post]
18 May 2011, 9:25 am by Dennis Crouch
Intellectual Ventures has hired John Desmarais and his small upstart firm of patent litigators. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 6:52 am by Ted Frank
Round Rock Research, the patent-troll/patent-licensing company owned by former Kirkland & Ellis patent litigator John Desmarais, is auctioning off four "covenants not to sue" on its 4200-patent portfolio March 31. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 6:02 am by Ashby Jones
Round Rock Research, the patent-licensing company owned by former Kirkland & Ellis superstar patent lawyer John Desmarais, will auction off four “covenants not to sue” at a New York auction on March 31. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 10:39 am by Gene Quinn
Cynical I know, right up until you realize that the lead attorney representing Intellectual Ventures in the FGPA litigation is John Desmarais of Desmarais, LLP, who himself is a patent troll, having quit his extremely lucrative private practice less than 1 year ago to buy patents himself and become a patent troll, after spending time over the years defending companies against patent trolls. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 11:34 am by Dennis Crouch
The company's outside counsel include an all-star cast of Former Delaware Judge Joseph Farnan; John Desmarais; Jared Bobrow; and Parker Folse. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 7:50 am by Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog
" One Year Later:  Round Rock Research LLC - In December 2009, former Kirkland & Ellis litigator John Desmarais helped form NPE Round Rock Research LLC and bought 4,500 patents from Micron Technology Inc. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 8:14 am by David Lat
In addition to Zwillinger & Genetski, it mentions John Desmarais, the superstar patent litigator who left Kirkland & Ellis to start his own firm, Desmarais, and Andrew Sandler and Benjamin Klubes, the powerhouse financial-services lawyers who left Skadden to start BuckleySandler (a move we discussed here). [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 2:20 pm by Brian Baxter
John Desmarais, one of the country's top patent litigators during a ten-year run at Kirkland & Ellis, is set to open his new IP boutique with offices spread across a floor of space at one of Manhattan's most sought-after addresses. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 3:20 am by law shucks
John Desmarais used to defend clients against infringement suits. [read post]
12 Jun 2010, 11:18 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Prior to working at CPA Global, Jindal was at Pangea3 and, before that, at EvalueServe.Of the work in question, concerning patents sold by Micron to Round Rock, the IAM Blog writes:In work done exclusively for IAM, Jindal finds that while just 5% of the entire universe of USPTO patents are of very high quality, that description applies to 20% of the patents Micron sold to Round Rock, the NPE set up by the company's former outside patent counsel John Desmarais. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 1:51 pm by Law Shucks
Not content to defend large corporations against IP infringement claims, Kirkland & Ellis partner John Desmarais has gone over to the dark side. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 12:00 pm by law shucks
Not content to defend large corporations against IP infringement claims, Kirkland & Ellis partner John Desmarais has gone over to the dark side. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 3:18 am by Ted Frank
[Baker @ Volokh] Big-firm patent lawyer John Desmarais opens up shop to litigate on behalf of his own patent portfolio. [read post]