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Intellectual Property

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More than 45 lawyers firmwide, including our entire Silicon Valley office, are devoted to intellectual property matters, making Kramer Levin’s IP department one of the largest among full-service firms.
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  • Kramer Levin's litigation-focused Intellectual Property team regularly asserts and defends IP-related claims in courts throughout the United States and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Well known for our success in the courtroom, including in many high-stakes patent litigation cases, we also advise clients on worldwide IP portfolio management and IP-based transactions. Our team covers all aspects of electrical, computer and mechanical technologies as well as large- and small-molecule pharmaceuticals.

    We employ a unique blend of legal acumen, business orientation, technical knowledge and litigation focus that fosters creative thinking and exploration of alternative theories. This approach often has a decisive impact on case outcomes and has contributed to our remarkable record of successes in the areas of cybersecurity, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, and medical devices.

    Our IP team takes a creative, proactive approach to every assignment, meeting challenges with practical solutions and helping our clients leverage opportunities through strategic licensing transactions, creative alliances and technology transfers. 

    Our principal areas of focus: 

    • Patent Litigation
    • Post-Grant Proceedings
    • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
    • Licensing Agreements and Corporate Transactions
    • Trademarks, Copyrights and Unfair Competition

    Whether we are called on to serve as counselor, warrior, peacekeeper or problem-solver, we focus on responding to our clients’ needs, removing barriers to their success, and helping them protect and optimize the value of their intellectual property.

    Defining Matters

    • Kramer Levin Wins Appeal That Allows Sirius XM to Pursue Attorneys’ Fees After Prevailing in Patent Infringement Lawsuit

      On Tuesday, April 21, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the District of Delaware’s prior order denying Sirius XM Radio Inc.’s motion for attorney fees in the underlying patent litigation Dragon Intellectual Property LLC v. Sirius XM Radio Inc..
    • Kramer Levin Secures Request for Rehearing Win before the PTAB for Sirius XM

      The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) has granted Sirius XM Radio, Inc. (“Sirius XM”)’s Requests for Rehearing of its earlier decisions denying four inter partes review Petitions based on Sirius XM’s identification of Real Parties in Interest. Successful Rehearing Requests are exceedingly rare, being granted only about five percent of the time.
    • Centripetal Lead Counsel Switch Leads to Successful Patent Settlement

      In a classic example of David versus Goliath, our patent litigation team recently scored a major victory for Centripetal Networks Inc., a small cybersecurity startup, against Keysight Technologies Inc. and Ixia, on patent infringement for four patents that Centripetal owns.

    Focus Areas

    • Electrical, Computer and Mechanical IP
    • Licensing Agreements and Corporate Transactions
    • Life Sciences
    • Patent Litigation
    • Patent Prosecution and Counseling
    • Post-Grant Proceedings
    • Technology and IP Transactions
    • Trade Secret Litigation
    • Trademarks, Copyrights and Unfair Competition

    Practice Contacts

      • Jonathan S. Caplan

        • Partner
        • Partner, Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
        • New York
        • jcaplan@kramerlevin.com
        • T 212.715.9488
        • F 212.715.7718
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      • Paul J. Andre

        • Partner
        • Managing Partner, Silicon Valley; Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
        • Silicon Valley
        • pandre@kramerlevin.com
        • T 650.752.1710
        • F 650.752.1810
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        Announcements
        Date
        April 28, 2025
        Title
        Kramer Levin Wins Managing IP 2025 Impact Case of the Year Award for Landmark Centripetal Networks Case
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        April 07, 2025
        Title
        Trademark Damages: Supreme Court Rejects Disgorgement of Non-Defendant Affiliate Profits
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        Speaking Engagement
        Date
        March 19, 2025
        Title
        American Conference Institute's Third Annual Advanced Therapeutics Forum
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        Date
        March 13, 2025
        Title
        USPTO Withdraws Its Former Artificial Intelligence Strategy Document
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        Date
        Feb. 05, 2025
        Title
        Patexia Recognizes Kramer Levin, Paul J. Andre, James Hannah, Kristopher B. Kastens and Lisa Kobialka for Patent Litigation
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        Jan. 22, 2025
        Title
        The Road Ahead: The USPTO Launches Five-Part Artificial Intelligence Strategy
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        Nov. 20, 2024
        Title
        CenterForce: Maximizing Value: IP Enforcement & Monetization Strategies
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        Nov. 12, 2024
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        CenterForce: Maximizing Value: IP Enforcement & Monetization Strategies
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        Nov. 12, 2024
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        Jennifer L. Gilbert Receives 2024 Minority Bar Coalition Unity Award
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        Oct. 24, 2024
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        2024 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 90 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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        Oct. 23, 2024
        Title
        AmLaw Litigation Daily Interview: How Kramer Levin's Patent Trial Team Approaches Teaching Tech to Juries
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        Oct. 07, 2024
        Title
        Kramer Levin Team Named to Law360's "Legal Lions of the Week" List
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        Oct. 03, 2024
        Title
        Benchmark Litigation 2025 Recognizes Kramer Levin
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        Sept. 27, 2024
        Title
        Kramer Levin Secures $30.5 Million Jury Verdict on Behalf of Acceleration Bay
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        Title
        Artificial Intelligence Quarterly Update
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        Sept. 10, 2024
        Title
        JPPCLE: Brumfield v. IBG LLC
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        Aug. 15, 2024
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        July 19, 2024
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        May 10, 2024
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        Defining Matters
        Date
        May 06, 2024
        Title
        Kramer Levin Secures $23.4M Patent Infringement Verdict on Behalf of Acceleration Bay
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        Date
        May 01, 2024
        Title
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        Speaking Engagement
        Date
        March 20, 2024
        Title
        American Conference Institute’s 2nd Annual Forum on IP, Funding and Tech Strategies for Novel Therapeutic Modalities
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        Defining Matters
        Date
        Feb. 01, 2024
        Title
        Kramer Levin Secures $151.5M Judgment for Centripetal in Cybersecurity Patent Case
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        Jan. 03, 2024
        Title
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        Dec. 05, 2023
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        Dec. 04, 2023
        Title
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        Date
        Nov. 01, 2023
        Title
        Centerforce’s IP Strategy Summit - 2023
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        Speaking Engagement
        Date
        Oct. 25, 2023
        Title
        Centerforce’s IP Strategy Summit
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        Date
        Oct. 18, 2023
        Title
        Benchmark Litigation 2024 Recognizes Kramer Levin
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        Sept. 22, 2023
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        2023 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists Include Over 90 Kramer Levin Attorneys
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    • Recognition

      Year
      2010 – 2025
      Name
      U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms
      Description
      Ranked in Tier 1 for Intellectual Property Litigation (New York); Recognized for Patent Litigation (National, San Jose, San Francisco); Patent Law (National, New York)
      Year
      2023 — 2024
      Name
      Chambers USA
      Description
      Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation (New York)
      Year
      2022
      Name
      Benchmark Litigation: Law Firm of the Year for New York
      Year
      2021
      Name
      Law360: Practice Group of the Year
      Year
      2021
      Name
      Managing IP's Impact Case of the Year Award
      Description
      Centripetal Networks v. Cisco Systems
      Year
      2016, 2020
      Name
      Docket Navigator
      Description
      Ranked in Top Ten for PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
      Year
      2013, 2016-2019
      Name
      Managing Intellectual Property
      Description
      Recommended for Patent Contentious and highly recommended for Copyright
      Year
      2014-2016, 2018
      Name
      Global Law Experts
      Description
      Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year
      Year
      2015
      Name
      The Daily Journal
      Description
      Named to The Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Finjan Inc.
      Year
      2015
      Name
      National Law Journal
      Description
      Named to National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Prism Technologies
      Year
      2014-2015
      Name
      Corporate INTL Magazine
      Description
      Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year

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