AZA lawyers have experienced great success representing clients in IP and IP-related cases throughout the world, including Europe and the Middle East. We regularly handle patent infringement, trademark, copyright and trade secret cases.

Our patent litigation lawyers’ experience includes everything from representing a major utility on international call-blocking technology, to a transportation company dispute over roadside safety technology, to working with software companies and computer hardware manufacturers on software- and hardware-related patents.  In one case, we favorably settled a bet-the-company software copyright infringement lawsuit shortly after taking the key witness’ deposition.

AZA’s IP stable includes Demetrios Anaipakos, Amir Alavi, Steve Mitby, and David Warden.  Demetrios Anaipakos and Amir Alavi are board certified trial lawyers who worked alongside Steve Mitby to help secure a $391 million patent verdict for a firm client in 2011. David Warden, also a board certified trial lawyer, is licensed as a patent attorney before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has been appointed by federal courts as a special master and mediator in patent litigation. Mr. Warden’s work includes representing a major computer technology company in a case asserting patents for the first single-chip microprocessor, a major defense contractor in a case involving “black program” technology for advanced fighter aircraft, and a major software developer in a trade secret theft case.

Examples of the cases our lawyers have handled recently include:

• AZA lawyers were called in a few months before trial and developed a previously untapped lost profits claim theory.  On the eve of trial, the Court dismissed everything but the lost profits model that AZA developed.  With AZA’s help, Versata/Trilogy won the nation’s second largest patent verdict in 2011, according to Verdict Search. The case is Versata Software Inc. v. SAP America Inc., et al.

• In 2010, AZA lawyers represented the American Automobile Association in patent litigation involving GPS technology.  AZA successfully defended the case and the AAA paid nothing. The case is Traffic Information, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Hewlett-Packard Company, The American Automobile Association, Inc., Rand McNally & Company, Mapquest, Inc., Nokia, Inc., Casio America, Inc., and Cole Cellular Phone.

• AZA lawyers recently filed suit against Proctor & Gamble’s Febreze candles on behalf of a celebrity fashion designer who developed wood wick technology. The case pending in the Eastern District of Texas alleges the Febreze candles are infringing on low-soot wood wick system patents. The case is Lumetique, Inc. v. The Proctor & Gamble Company.

• AZA lawyers represent Versata software in patent infringement cases in the United States and Germany related to software configuration. The case is Versata Development Group, Inc.  v. Open Mind Technologies AG.

• AZA lawyers represent Core Laboratories in patent litigation related to oilfield drilling tools technology.  The case is Owen Oil Tools LP v. Hunting Titan, Ltd. . f/k/a Titan Specialties, Ltd., et al.