Dennis C. Hopkins

Partner

Practice Description

Representative Matters

• Represents a defendant in a multi-defendant patent litigation case in the Eastern District of Texas. The matter involves business method patents directed towards internet-based electronic commerce.
• Represents a major financial institution in a multi-defendant patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas.
• Technology Patents LLC v. Deutsche Telekom AG, et al. (D. Md.) Represented Avea İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş., a Turkish telecommunications company, as a defendant in a patent infringement action in the District of Maryland. Our client's involvement in the case was terminated upon the court granting our motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. 
• PowerDsine, Inc. v. AMI Semiconductor, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.)  Represented plaintiff PowerDsine in an action filed against AMI Semiconductor in federal court for breach of a nondisclosure agreement covering semiconductor technology. Counterclaims filed against PowerDsine and its corporate parent, Microsemi, for breach of contract, business defamation and interference with prospective business relations were dismissed on Microsemi and PowerDsine's motion for summary judgment. The case was settled on terms favorable to PowerDsine and Microsemi. 
• PowerDsine, Inc. v. Broadcom Corporation (E.D.N.Y.) Represented PowerDsine against two former employees for breach of confidentiality and non-competition agreements and against their new employer, Broadcom Corporation, for tortious interference with contractual relationships. 
• PowerDsine, Ltd. v. Texas Instruments Incorporated (E.D.N.Y.) Represented PowerDsine in the enforcement of its copyright and trade secret rights regarding Power-over-Ethernet software protocols against Texas Instruments. 
• Represented a major financial institution in a trade secret and copyright infringement action in the District of Delaware. The case was favorably settled. 
• ISCO International v. Conductus, Inc. and Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (D. Del.) Served as trial counsel for defendant Conductus, Inc. in a patent infringement action involving receiver front ends for cellular base stations. The trial resulted in a successful jury verdict and a judgment finding the patent-in-suit invalid and unenforceable due to inequitable conduct. The case was affirmed on appeal. 
• U.S. Philips Corp. v. Analog Devices, Inc., et al. (S.D.N.Y.) Represented defendants Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation and Linear Technology Corporation in a patent infringement action brought by U.S. Philips involving a system for controlling communications between integrated circuits. The case was settled on favorable terms. 
• Colorocs Information v. Xerox Corporation (S.D.N.Y.) Represented defendant Xerox in a patent infringement action involving multiple patents concerning plain paper color reproduction technology. The case was favorably settled. 
• Aventis Cropscience, N.V. v. Pioneer Hi--Bred Int'l, Inc. (M.D.N.C.) Represented Aventis Cropscience in a patent infringement case involving methods for genetically engineering plant cells. 
• Wilden Pump & Eng’g Co. v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. (C.D. Cal.) Represented defendant Ingersoll Rand in securing summary judgment of invalidity in a patent infringement case involving electronic pump controls.

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