O’Melveny Partners Luann Simmons, Darin Snyder, and Ryan Yagura Named 2024 “Top Intellectual Property Lawyers” by the Daily Journal
May 22, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES—May 22, 2024—O’Melveny partners Luann Simmons, Darin Snyder, and Ryan Yagura have been named to the Daily Journal’s 2024 list of “Top Intellectual Property Lawyers,” which recognizes the top intellectual property and patent litigation attorneys practicing in California.
The Daily Journal lauded Yagura, who serves as Chair of O’Melveny’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice, for leading an O’Melveny team that settled a dispute for Samsung Electronics in which Daedalus filed infringement claims concerning numerous patents relating to integrated circuits, systems-on-a-chip, and processors. The litigation, which was resolved in June 2023, was Samsung’s most significant, high-stakes patent litigation of the year. “We found a way out,” Yagura said. “We were able to resolve the matter early.”
The publication hailed Simmons and Snyder for co-leading the defense of Google, Waze, and Samsung against AGIS in multi-front patent litigation that implicated more than 50 Google products and services, and hundreds of Samsung products and services. The Federal Circuit granted a request for a writ of mandamus to transfer all three cases from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California, vacating the trial dates.
“Just two weeks before a scheduled June 2022 trial in E.D. Tex., the Federal Circuit granted our request for a writ of mandamus,” Simmons said. “Faced with starting over in a new court, AGIS filed a new Complaint in the USITC, which it withdrew after we uncovered weaknesses, including potential inequitable conduct.”
“The biggest obstacle in the AGIS case was the successful development and implementation of a global strategy over a period of years that simultaneously resolved several pending cases for multiple clients and related parties,” Snyder said.
Daily Journal subscribers can view the full special report here.
O’Melveny’s intellectual property lawyers counsel on the acquisition, exploitation, enforcement, and defense of intellectual property rights worldwide, and are proud to be recognized, year after year, as one of the country’s leading intellectual property law practices.
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