Verhoeven Tapped to Join Quinn Emanuel's Expanding Silicon Valley IP Litigation Team.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 1999-- Intellectual property litigator lit·i·gate v. lit·i·gat·ed, lit·i·gat·ing, lit·i·gates v.tr. To contest in legal proceedings. v.intr. To engage in legal proceedings. Charles K. Verhoeven is relocating from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges' Los Angeles headquarters to join the firm's expanding Silicon Valley IP practice in Palo Alto. "Charlie is an outstanding intellectual property trial lawyer and an ideal fit for our Silicon Valley clients," said John Quinn, "He combines the strategic case management and courtroom skills so crucial to technology clients with a real understanding of how businesses work. Most importantly, he wins his cases." The firm's increasing Silicon Valley caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun was the catalyst for the move, added Quinn. The office, established in 1997, has grown from four to fourteen lawyers. Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. partner Verhoeven works with clients such as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Time Warner, Johnson Controls, Direct TV, and Hughes Aircraft. Some of the notable results Mr. Verhoeven has obtained in the last two years include the following: - a $4.9 million verdict and a finding of willful infringement in a two month patent jury trial; - a defense judgment in a two week trial in which the plaintiff claimed $750 million in damages; - a defense judgment in a two week, $30 million arbitration suit before a panel of three arbitrators; and - a summary judgment ruling that defendant had infringed two of plaintiff's patents, resulting in a settlement in excess of $23 million. Verhoeven started his career at Cravath Swaine and Moore in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , where he worked with litigation powerhouses Tom Barr and David Boies. He made the move to Quinn Emanuel in 1993. Due to the increased caseload at Quinn Emanuel's Silicon Valley office, the firm has also hired a number of new lateral associates. - Victoria F. Maroulis (Yale) will be coming to the firm from Davis Polk & Wardwell; - C. Matthew Didaleusky (Columbia) has lateraled from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; - Diane C. Hutnyan (Stanford) recently joined the firm after serving a stint with Cooley Godward; and - Maureen K. Bogue (Cornell) will be coming to the firm from Epstein Becker & Green. In addition to its lateral associate hires, Quinn Emanuel's Silicon Valley office has also hired W. Paul Schuck from the University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School, located in Ann Arbor, is a unit of the University of Michigan. The Law School, founded in 1859, currently has an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students, most of whom are earning the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.) or Master of Laws (LLM). and Jennifer A. Kash from Hastings College of Law. Quinn Emanuel is a 100-attorney business litigation firm with offices in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Indian Wells. The firm specializes in providing services in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment, employment, white collar crime white collar crime n. a generic term for crimes involving commercial fraud, cheating consumers, swindles, insider trading on the stock market, embezzlement and other forms of dishonest business schemes. , banking, insurance and health care. |
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