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Morgan & Finnegan has long maintained a blue-chip client roster of many of the world's best-known consumer-brand and industrial product companies. The list is long and varied: antiperspirants to airplane engines, cigars to satellites, dental floss to diamonds. We help them to protect and leverage their market share.
Our industrial and consumer products practice is worldwide, and we have represented clients in almost every court in America over the last hundred years.
We manage all consumer and industrial product patent and trademark issues, including product and trademark validity and clearance, and all aspects of enforceability and infringement. We provide the highest quality opinions for purposes of validity and clearance, due diligence and freedom of use. Our successful participation in litigation provides us with a precise understanding of the role and importance of opinion, how it can be used and how it can be attacked. We have been on both sides many times.
This depth of experience allows us to provide our clients with industrial and consumer product IP services in a cost-effective manner. Our opinion work, for example, has a starting gate well in advance of many another firms.
Representative matters include a long series of victories we have won on behalf of Procter & Gamble. Two notable examples: a dramatic $178 million award involving disposable diaper products (Procter & Gamble Company v. Paragon Trade Brands) was the fourth largest among all-time patent infringement awards; and in Procter & Gamble Co. v. Nabisco, Keebler & Frito Lay, we settled a patent and trade secret case involving chewy, crispy cookies on the eve of trial for $125 million, which at the time, was the single largest settlement ever in a patent case.
In an International Trade Commission case filed by Yamaha against our client Bombardier, alleging infringement of 11 patents relating to personal watercraft, we were successful in getting five claims dismissed. Yamaha withdrew a sixth patent days before an evidentiary hearing. And after a four-week trial on the remaining five asserted patents, Yamaha agreed to settle the case and a related action in California involving 32 patents.
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