Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Litigation boutique Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is highly recommended in New York for all contentious areas, including copyright, patent and trademark.

In the patent area, key practitioners at the firm include Steve Cherny, Raymond Nimrod, Nick Cerrito and Colleen Tracy James. The group is highly active for pharmaceutical clients in Hatch-Waxman litigation and other disputes in the life sciences area. Cerrito is current co-chair of the firm’s United States life sciences industry group. Clients in this area include Allergan, Bio-Rad, Dow Chemical, Forest Laboratories, Merck and Pfizer.

In the trademark and copyright group, clients include Boy Scouts of America, Gucci, HomeAdvisor and Vimeo.

For copyright, the firm was successful for Vimeo in a Second Circuit appeal which reversed a denial of summary judgment to the client on copyright infringement claims. The firm was also active recently for Bloomberg and NetEase in copyright matters.

In the life sciences area, the firm represented the Broad Institute in the closely watched patent interference involving CRISPR technology. The firm also acted for Forest Laboratories, Allergan and Adamas Pharmaceuticals in a Hatch-Waxman matter in the District of Delaware.