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• Assisted VoiceBox Technologies Corp. by securing dozens of patents to protect its award- winning contextual voice technology. VoiceBox was recently named in the IEEE’s Patent Power 2013 Scorecard, an independent industry evaluation of the best patent portfolios conducted by the research firm 1790 Analytics.
• Has handled Patent and IP-based sales involving hundreds of millions of dollars
• Assisted Activision on IP issues associated with its $100 million acquisition of the Guitar Hero franchise from Red Octane
• Has successfully assisted Playfish in shutting down unauthorized secondary markets for its virtual goods and currency
• Co-lead trial team for Computer Associates, Inc. in a matter involving the divestiture of an open source software product prevailing on all substantive issues and obtaining an award of attorney's fees
• Advised StarMine LLC from its inception on IP issues and developed and implemented IP strategy through its sale to Thomson-Reuters, Inc.
• First chaired team that obtained preliminary and permanent injunction on behalf of financial services company for a business method patent relating to the municipal bond industry
• Obtained patent for and developed successful multi-million dollar licensing program for Information Planning Management Service, Inc.
• Managed internet portfolios and assisted in IP based sale of United Toll, LLC to a Roper Industries, Inc. entity
• Prevailed in a patent interference matter for a university professor for his Nobel-prize winning invention in the field of Chemistry
• First chaired team that successfully sued the United States Government under 28 U.S.C. § 1498 for patent infringement in the Court of Federal Claims