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LOCAL COUNSEL SERVICES
Because of our extensive
experience in both state and
federal trial courts in Austin,
as well as broad appellate
experience in the Texas Supreme
Court and Texas Courts of
Appeal, our firm is frequently
sought out as local counsel to
some of the nations' largest
firms.
We are local counsel to
Kirkland & Ellis in a variety of
major intellectual property
cases, including patent infringement litigation for DIRECTV, EchoStar and DISH Network, as well as patent
litigation for major Japanese
auto makers over the search
technology in certain GPS
devices, trademark disputes and
other IP cases. We have worked
with Latham & Watkins on IP
litigation, Bickel & Brewer in
IP cases involving new
technologies developed at the
University of Texas, and Loeb &
Loeb in a number of suits for
the motion picture industry
involving pirating of first run
films and other issues. In other
cases, we have been specified by
the client as the local counsel,
rather than being chosen by lead
counsel, and we pride ourselves
in working seamlessly and
efficiently with lead counsel as
if we were their partners in a
satellite office. These firms
and others have hired us
repeatedly because we become
invaluable parts of the
litigation team and we give
their clients the edge they need
to prevail.
We are not the kind of local
counsel who simply sit at
counsel table and present a
bill. We handle hearings,
briefing assignments, prepare
and present witnesses in trials,
pick juries and provide the
mastery of local rules and
unwritten practices that our
colleagues in the larger
out-of-town firms find
invaluable. We also argue
appeals, providing any briefing
assistance that is asked of us
as well. References are readily
available from our colleagues at
the firms we work with
frequently.
Summary Judgment Victories in
Patent Cases:
In June 2011, Skelton & Woody was co-counsel with Kirkland & Ellis in representing DIRECTV, and co-counsel with Morrison & Foerster in representing EchoStar and DISH Network in a patent infringement case. Here is a link to this order: Order Granting MSJ
Skelton & Woody was co-counsel
with Kirkland & Ellis in a pair
of patent cases filed by
Encyclopedia Britannica against
Toyota, Honda, TomTom Inc.,
Magellan Navigation Inc., and
Alpine Electronics concerning
the map search function on GPS
devices. Encyclopedia
Britannica's patent infringement
claims were dismissed by Austin
Federal Judge Lee Yeakel who
found that Encyclopedia
Britannica's claim of priority
was broken and that Encyclopedia
Britannica's patents were
invalid. Please view the article
from Law360.com:
Toyota, Others Prevail In Spat
Over Britannica Map IP.
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