What we say about the firm's legal practice in United States
Intellectual property
Within Patent litigation: International Trade Commission, Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg is a first tier firm,
Specialists in handling Section 337 investigations, the attorneys at Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg ‘are the ITC experts’ and are praised for their ‘knowledge, experience and results’. Based in Washington DC, the team is led by managing partner James Adduci, ‘a terrific lawyer’ who has been representing Research In Motion in a complaint filed by Spansion against Samsung in relation to flash memory chips. The case remains ongoing but the ITC ruled in favour of the multiple defendants, including Research In Motion, preventing numerous consumer electronic products from being barred from importation into the US. Adduci also represented Japanese electronics manufacturer Oki Data as respondent against Ricoh in a patent infringement involving printing and imaging devices, with Oki cleared of violating four of the five patents in question. Louis Mastriani acted for Imation and Memorex in an infringement case brought by SanDisk in relation to seven flash drive technology patents. It is heavily focused on the hi-tech sector, with clients including Apple, Honeywell and Analog Devices. Tom Schaumberg represented the latter in a case brought by Knowles Electronics regarding silicon microphone packages. Promoted to partner in January 2010, Andrew Pratt ‘has an encyclopaedic knowledge of patent law and his analysis of the law and the facts is well reasoned, logical, and persuasive’.