Noted y clients for its ‘solid experience in the courtroom’, Sidley Austin LLP represents a wide-ranging roster of clients—spanning professional services, life sciences, and medical devices—in IP litigation, including in complex trade secret matters. The team is headed up by several experienced litigators: Dallas-based ’seasoned courtroom lawyer’ Aimee Fagan; New York-based Ching-Lee Fukuda ; Chicago-based Stephanie Koh; Jeffrey Kushan, who works from Washington DC, and San Francisco-based Irene Yang.
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‘Solid experience in the courtroom in trade secrets litigation’
‘Phillip Aurentz is an excellent younger partner with excellent technical and courtroom skills; he is very smart and brings deep technical knowledge to the table
- 'Aimee Fagan is a seasoned courtroom lawyer who is smart and well-liked by judges and juries.’
‘Aimee Fagan is excellent.’
Work highlights
- Secured a complete arbitration victory for the client in a trade secret suit brought by data analytics and marketing research company Motista, LLC, resulting in the dismissal of a related Eastern District of Texas litigation.
- Defended the client against Boston Scientific’s assertion of 20 patents and 60+ trade secrets in multiple cases in venues across the US over the course of six years of litigation.
- Secured a favorable ruling on behalf of an insurance company in a trade secret, patent infringement, and breach-of-contract suit involving tech used to detect the motion of a vehicle by a smartphone.
Lawyers
Practice head
Aimee Fagan; Ching-Lee Fukuda; Stephanie Koh; Jeffrey Kushan; Irene Yang
Other key lawyers
Phillip Aurentz; Sharon Lee; Thomas Broughan