Head of the IP litigation practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and based in the firm’s Redwood City office, Ashok Ramani advises companies on complex patent issues, with recent work in the medical and tech spaces. He defended Comcast against claims from Touchstream Technologies that they infringed patent related to remote control of video playback, helping negotiate a favorable settlement. Furthermore, he also secured a judgment as a matter of law of no infringement for Comcast against claims from WhereverTV alleging infringement of interactive program guide software.
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Partner, Head of IP Litigation practice
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Ashok heads Davis Polk’s IP Litigation practice. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, he has represented leading technology and healthcare companies.
For his plaintiff clients, he has secured over $800 million in collected judgments and settlement payments (not simply verdicts only a fraction of which are ever paid). For his defendant clients, he has repeatedly secured complete defense verdicts at trial before juries and judges in cases in which the plaintiff sought billions or hundreds of millions in damages.
Outside of Davis Polk, Ashok serves on the boards of Bay Legal and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers-Northern California.
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