John A. CotigualaJohn A.Cotiguala
Of Counsel, Intellectual Property
John Cotiguala is Of Counsel in the Intellectual Property practice group of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. His practice focuses on intellectual property disputes relating to patents, trade secrets, and trademarks across a broad range of technologies, including electronic trading computer software, wireless communication, encryption, optical identification devices, video compression, cryopreserved hepatocyte preparations, golf clubs, oil and gas extraction, and solvent cements.
Mr. Cotiguala has substantial experience in all phases of intellectual property litigation, including notice letters, opinion work, pre-lawsuit investigation and evaluation, pleadings, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, pretrial hearings, motion practice, fact and expert discovery, claim construction briefing, trial, settlement discussions, and appeals.
Represented high-performance golf equipment company Parsons Xtreme Golf (PXG) in a variety of intellectual property and litigation matters, both foreign and domestic.
Secured a favorable outcome for international charting and trading software leader CQG LLC, in a nationally-prominent patent infringement action brought by Trading Technologies involving patents directed to graphical user interfaces for trading commodities. Following a three-week jury trial in the Northern District of Illinois, the jury found that CQG did not indirectly infringe, infringe under the doctrine of equivalents, or willfully infringe the asserted patents, and awarded only $15.8 million in reasonable royalty damages when plaintiff originally sought $783 million.
- Named “Illinois Rising Star” in Intellectual Property
Thomson Reuters (2018-23)