Robert A. Appleby, P.C.

Represented Alcatel-Lucent in the successful trial defense of a patent-infringement claim brought by Wi-LAN in the Eastern District of Texas, in which the jury returned a complete defense verdict of noninfringement and invalidity.

Represented TIBCO Software as a defendant in a patent-infringement action in the Northern District of California, in which the court granted summary judgment of patent invalidity in TIBCO's favor.

Representing Intel in defense of an action in the Northern District of Georgia, in which the plaintiff alleges infringement of a patent related to microprocessor technology.

Representing a leading computer, mobile device and media player company in an infringement action in the District of Delaware involving patents related to smartphone technology.

Represented IBM against Vasudevan Software, Inc. in the Northern District of California in defense of a multipatent infringement action involving business intelligence and database software.

Represented IBM in defense of an action in the Eastern District of Texas involving a patent related to database software.

Represented Alcatel-Lucent as plaintiff in two infringement trials, one involving audio-compression patents in which the jury returned a $1.53 billion verdict and another involving user-interface patents in which the jury returned a $357 million verdict.

Represented Corning Gilbert in successful defense of a design patent infringement trial.

Represented several cellular service providers in defense of an infringement action involving cellular-networking technology in which the jury returned a verdict of noninfringement and patent invalidity. The jury's verdicts of noninfringement and patent invalidity was selected as "Defense Verdict of the Week" by The National Law Journal.

Represented appellant Osram Sylvania in an appeal from a multimillion dollar jury verdict in which the appeals court vacated the jury verdict, reversed the district court's judgment of patent infringement, and entered judgment of noninfringement in the appellant's favor.

Represented Lucent Technologies as plaintiff in an infringement trial in which the jury returned a verdict finding five data networking patents willfully infringed.

Represented appellee in which the appeals court affirmed a multimillion dollar jury award for breach of a non-disclosure agreement.