Jeff A. PadeJeff A.Pade

Domestic Fabricator: Current plaintiff’s counsel in parallel district court and arbitration proceedings involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement, unfair competition, tortious interference, racketeering, antitrust and correction of inventorship.

Domestic and International Services Provider: Current defense counsel in an international dispute with (i) U.S. clams of copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, false advertising, unjust enrichment and breach of fiduciary duty; and (ii) Chinese claims of copyright infringement trade secrets misappropriation.

International Pharmaceutical Company: Current defense counsel in international know-how and trade secrets litigation and arbitration arising from a soured deal involving next-generation drugs.

Foreign Pharmaceutical Company: Current defense counsel in an international arbitration concerning billions of dollars in alleged know-how and trade secret royalties.

Domestic Semiconductor Fabricator: Provided strategic advice on the potential enforcement of trade secrets in ITC and District Court actions.

Domestic and International Services Provider: Directed clean-room development strategies.

Foreign and Domestic Services Provider: Led and resolved an offensive, international and multidistrict dispute that arose out of a failed business collaboration. The complex U.S. parallel actions included claims of trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, fraud, patent infringement and trademark infringement.

Domestic Medical Device Company: Directed early-stage District Court and mediation strategies in a multidistrict trade secrets, patent and breach of contract dispute.

International Digital Services Provider: Directed and resolved an offensive trade secrets strategy against international actors’ misuse of proprietary technology, including claims of breach of contract, tortious interference with contract, tortious interference with prospective business relations, fraud based on intentional misrepresentation, fraud based on nondisclosure, misappropriation of trade secrets, violation of the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act, and contributory trademark infringement.

Foreign Fabricator: Directed and resolved the defense of a multiyear, multidistrict and complex international dispute involving claims of trade secrets misappropriation, patent infringement and breach of contract alleged against a large Korean conglomerate.

Foreign Fabricator: Advised a Chinese conglomerate on potential civil and criminal trade secrets inquiries.

Medical Company: Advised on compliance with government regulatory requirements to maintain trade secrets status of medical products.

Foreign Fabricator: Won a complete dismissal, with prejudice, of a complex international trade secrets action against a large Korean conglomerate, in federal District Court in California. The dismissed claims involved alleged theft of trade secrets under New York and California law, purported Lanham Act violations, and allegations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act premised on trade secret theft.

Domestic Fabricator: Directed a complex international trade secrets investigation concerning theft of core corporate trade secret assets across multiple jurisdictions. The investigation required computer forensic analysis in multiple countries, involved issues of domestic and foreign trade secret laws (both civil and criminal), covered multiple actors and spanned many years. Jeff successfully resolved the investigation without resort to formal litigation.

Foreign Fabricator: Directed an overseas internal trade secrets investigation to assess and limit potential trade secrets exposure. The investigation required intensive foreign forensics work, involved multiple actors, lasted many years and was resolved without lawsuit or liability.

Foreign Fabricator: Directed an audit and overhaul of a corporate conglomerate’s overlapping intellectual property and related corporate polices, including drafting, revising and implementing document retention, confidentiality, trade secret, and security policies and procedures.

Financial Institution: Served as strategic counsel concerning an offensive and domestic trade secrets dispute, including directing local counsel on a state UTSA claim. The case successfully settled in favor of the plaintiff.

Kolon Industries: Jeff served as the lead lawyer on technical defenses of Kolon Industries in its massive and storied trade secrets dispute with DuPont and the U.S. Department of Justice. The case involved a multibillion-dollar dispute over aramid fiber technology, in which DuPont claimed Kolon stole crown jewel trade secret information concerning Kevlar. The magnitude of claimed damages, along with DuPont’s request for a shut-down injunction, rendered the case among the largest and most intensely defended trade secret matters ever to be litigated in a U.S. court. The case spanned more than six years of active litigation, and involved multiple civil litigations, appeals, criminal investigation and prosecution by the U.S. government, criminal investigations in South Korea, enforcement litigations and numerous other issues involving antitrust, unfair competition and breach of contract claims. Following an initial $930 million jury verdict in favor of DuPont in the first civil trial, Kolon appealed to the Fourth Circuit, who vacated the verdict in its entirety and ordered a new trial. Following remand, and prior to the impending trial of related criminal charges, Kolon successfully orchestrated a global settlement agreement with DuPont and a related plea agreement with the Department of Justice.

Foreign Fabricator: Defended a civil trade secrets dispute in the U.S. where a competitor alleged theft of the competitor’s trade secrets on memory technologies by hiring the competitor’s former employee.

Lotte Chemical (previously Honam Petrochemical): Won a complete dismissal, with prejudice, of a complex international trade secrets action against Lotte Chemical, a large Korean conglomerate, in Federal District Court in Alabama concerning carbon-fiber preforms used in the manufacture of high-performance disc brakes. The dismissed claims involved alleged theft of trade secrets, breach of contract, fraud, interference with contractual and business relations, and conspiracy.

UBS and Barclays (previously part of Lehman Brothers): Defended UBS and Barclays in a patent action in the Northern District of Illinois concerning automated trading systems.

Foreign Chemical Company: Avoided two lawsuits by developing and executing strategies causing potential plaintiffs to drop separate allegations of patent infringement.

Media Processing Company: Developed a comprehensive and highly successful litigation and patent prosecution strategy in preparation for multiple offensive patent suits (currently on-going).

Chicago Mercantile Exchange: Represented Chicago Mercantile Exchange in defensive and declaratory judgment patent infringement actions involving several patents relating to electronic trading of securities in the Northern District of Illinois and Delaware.

Moser Baer: Defended Moser Baer in a multijurisdictional patent and commercial contract dispute concerning optical and magnetic storage media; ultimately obtained a critical win on a dispositive issue on appeal.

Shuffle Master: Defended Shuffle Master in an antitrust and patent dispute concerning various casino games.

Applied Materials: Successfully represented Applied Materials in the Northern District of California in a multifaceted, offensive patent dispute involving combined litigation, prosecution and reexamination strategies on wafer inspection systems.

eBay: Represented eBay in a Federal Circuit appeal, a U.S. Supreme Court appeal, remand litigation before the Eastern District of Virginia and reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office concerning automated auction and payment systems.

Semitool: Represented Semitool in an offensive and defensive patent action in the Northern District of California concerning wafer cleaning stations and single-wafer processors, including spray acid, spray solvent, and ECD Cu plating tools.

S. Equipment Fabricator: Filed and resolved a declaratory judgment patent action against a foreign-based golf club manufacturer.

S. Manufacturer: Defended a patent infringement action concerning molten-metal manufacturing processes.

Foreign Fabricator: Defended allegations of patent infringement in an ICC International Arbitration.

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