Kathryn Riley Grasso

Katie's recent litigation matters include:

• Covidien v. Ethicon: Represents Covidien in medical device patent infringement case
• XPO Logistics, Inc.: Represents XPO in several wage and hour lawsuits pending in California
• Sophos v. Fortinet: Represented Sophos in arbitration and district court proceedings related to trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement
• Finjan Licensing v. McAfee, et al: Represented Sophos as trial counsel in complicated multi-defendant patent infringement case filed by Finjan in the District of Delaware involving two patents related to network security and antivirus software. Katie successfully argued for and obtained a reduction in damages from the court which resulted in the case going to the jury with a reduced risk for Sophos. Following a three week jury trial, the jury returned a complete defense verdict including a finding of non-infringement and invalidity for all the asserted claims. Finjan had previously prevailed on the same patents in the same venue against another defendant
• Ergo Licensing v. CareFusion: Represented CareFusion in case filed in the District of Maine involving a patent related to a multichannel metering IV system. Successfully invalidated the patent on summary judgment. The patent holder appealed. We prevailed at the Federal Circuit
• Biogen Idec and Genentech v. GlaxoSmithKline: Represented plaintiff patent holders in a patent infringement suit against GSK entities for infringement of a method of treatment patent to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia