King & Spalding

King & Spalding is highly recommended in New York for its capabilities in copyright and patent litigation. The firm also has a significant offering in the trademark contentious area for which it is recommended.

Key practitioners in New York include Bruce Baber, Gerald Flattmann and Kathleen McCarthy. Baber, who also practices in Georgia, is one of the founding partners of the firm’s IP group, offering significant experience in a copyright, patent and trademark matters. Flattmann is now global chair of the life sciences patent litigation practice. He focuses on litigation and post-grant work for clients in the pharmaceutical and biopharma areas. In the trademark and copyright area, Kathleen McCarthy is one of the firm’s leading practitioners. She specializes in federal court disputes and TTAB proceedings.

In 2021, the firm was shortlisted by Managing IP for the US Copyright Firm of the Year award.

The firm recently acted for Galderma Laboratories in a dispute that resulted in a noteworthy “doctrine of equivalents” infringement ruling.

Additionally, the firm is defending LSI and other Broadcom entities in patent litigation pending in the Northern District of California, where Carnegie Mellon University has asserted two patents against semiconductor products used to control hard disk drives.

Trademark clients include Chevron, Coca-Cola, Sephora and DFS.

The firm was active for Google in Google v Oracle, one of the most high-profile copyright cases of the past year.

The firm also represented Dolby in a significant copyright infringement and breach of contract action against Adobe in the Northern District of California, in which Dolby alleged that Adobe failed to properly account for and pay royalties owed under several license agreements.