Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Partners Greg Arovas, Todd Friedman, Brandon Brown and Chris Lawless were recognized as runners-up for The American Lawyer Litigation Daily's "Litigator of the Week" for their work for client Intel. 

"... Greg Arovas, Todd Friedman, Brandon Brown and Chris Lawless of Kirkland & Ellis helped Intel Corp. fend off claims from the last of 12 patents initially asserted in 2019 by Swiss intellectual property licensing outfit PACT XPP Schweiz AG. A core team of more than 50 Kirkland lawyers and paralegals have worked on the matter for Intel, including at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, where six of the patents were invalidated via inter partes review. U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson, sitting by designation in Delaware, last week granted summary judgment to Intel on the last remaining patent, finding that PACT improperly took positions in patent prosecution that contradicted arguments it made in litigation. “[A] patentee cannot have his claim and eat it, too,” the judge wrote."