Litigation

The attorneys of Hawkinson Yang have extensive experience representing the world’s largest companies in their most complicated, high-risk litigation matters. Before starting our own firm, we spent years practicing at some of the most elite large corporate litigation firms in the United States. We continue to hold ourselves to the highest professional and ethical standards as we continue our litigation practice in a boutique setting.

We represent clients in intellectual property litigation (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets) and other complex civil litigation matters in courts across the United States. We also represent clients in arbitration and adversarial proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The following are some significant litigations in which our attorneys have served as lead counsel or played a primary role (this list includes matters handled at our former firms):

Litigation adverse to GPNE Corp. (N.D. Cal.) – Represented a major technology company in a patent infringement action related to mobile communications technologies.

Litigation adverse to Nokia Corp. (D. Del.) – Represented a leading consumer electronics company in asserting its pioneering microprocessor power management and connectivity patents against Nokia as part of a broader dispute with the legacy handset maker.

Litigation adverse to Samsung Electronics Co. (various cases in N.D. Cal. and foreign jurisdictions) – Represented a leading technology company in a series of patent actions brought by Samsung around the world, including in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and South Korea; developed legal arguments that led to the invalidation of over a dozen Samsung patents.

Alien Technology Corp. v. Intermec, Inc. (D.N.D.) – Defended an innovative manufacturer of radio frequency identification (RFID) products against 14 patents asserted by a larger competitor who sought to establish a licensing program to collect royalties from the nascent RFID industry.

American Radio LLC v. Intel Corp. (C.D. Cal.) – Defended Intel in a case against a plaintiff who claimed to have patents covering the well-known concept of forward error correction, an erroneous claim that was corrected by the district court and affirmed by the Federal Circuit.

Arcadyan Technology Corp. v. Plume Design, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Represented a leading technology manufacturer in litigation against its former customer in a case involving breach of contract and fraud claims.

AVM Technologies LLC v. Intel Corp. (D. Del.) – Defended Intel in a patent infringement case involving dynamic logic circuitry in its microprocessors.

Azure Networks, LLC v. Intel Corp. (E.D. Tex.) – Defended Intel in a patent infringement case involving its microprocessors and wireless chipsets.

California Institute of Technology v. Hughes Communications, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) – Represented Hughes, DISH, and EchoStar in a series of patent infringement actions involving the DVB-S2 satellite communications standard.

EnGenius Technologies, Inc. (various cases in E.D. Tex. and D. Del.) – Defended EnGenius in patent infringement actions involving networking products, including IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) products.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. v. Amtran Technology Co. (W.D. Tex.) – Represented MediaTek in a patent infringement litigation involving semiconductor technologies. 

Hewlett-Packard Company v. ServiceNow, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Represented HP in asserting its trailblazing web services patents against an upstart SaaS company; devised arguments that defeated an attempt to invalidate the patents in inter partes reviews at the patent office.

MAZ Encryption Technologies, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company (D. Del.) – Defended HP in a patent infringement case involving the encryption and biometric security technologies in HP’s PCs and HP-UX operating system.

Motorola v. Lemko (N.D. Ill.) – Defended Huawei in two related trade secret misappropriation actions.

Rambus Inc. (various cases in N.D. Cal.) – Defended Rambus, an inventor of fundamental DRAM technology, against antitrust claims brought by major memory manufacturers.

Realtime Data LLC d/b/a IXO v. Actian Corp. (E.D. Tex.) – Represented Oracle and HP in a series of patent infringement actions involving data compression technologies.

Senao Networks, Inc. v. TRENDnet, Inc. (Cal. Super. Ct.) – Represented a leading technology manufacturer in a breach of contract case.

Systems America, Inc. v Rockwell Software, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Represented Systems America in a breach of contract and software copyright infringement litigation.

In the Matter of Certain Microprocessors, Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same (ITC) – Defended Intel and two major computer makers in an ITC investigation in which complainant sought to ban the importation of virtually all Intel microprocessors and PC and servers that used them.

In the Matter of Certain Laser-Driven Light Sources, Subsystems Containing Laser-Driven Light Sources, and Products Containing Same (ITC) – Represented ASML and Qioptiq Photonics in an ITC investigation involving photolithography and other semiconductor manufacturing technologies.

In the Matter of Certain Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Computers, Tablet Computers, Digital Media Players, and Cameras (ITC) – Represented a major technology company in an ITC investigation brought by Ericsson involving 2G and 3G wireless communications technologies.

In the Matter of Certain MLC Flash Memory Devices and Products Containing Same (ITC) – Represented a major technology company in an ITC investigation involving nonvolatile memory technologies.