Alston & Bird Secures Jury Verdict Defeating Claims of Patent Infringement Against Nokia

Alston & Bird successfully defended Nokia of America Corp. against allegations that its router products infringed four patents owned by Smart Path Communications.  On April 5, an Eastern District of Texas jury cleared Nokia of all claims of infringement, finding one patent not infringed, one patent invalid, and one patent invalid and not infringed. The Court held a fourth asserted patent not infringed and granted summary judgment prior to the trial. The result is that Nokia was found not liable on all four asserted patents.

Alston & Bird secured a clean-sweep jury verdict for its clients Redfin and Matterport in patent litigation before Judge Albright in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division.

Alston & Bird secured approximately $10 million in damages for Rockwell Automation in its suit against an Italian counterfeiter Parcop S.R.L. (doing business as WiAutomation) in the District of Delaware. The final judgment—including $3.2 million in treble damages and $3.8 million in disgorgement—more than doubled the jury’s August 2023 award of $4.3 million. In a trailblazing verdict, the jury found WiAutomation, an Italian industrial equipment reseller, liable on five counts—trademark Infringement, counterfeiting, false designation of origin, deceptive trade practices, and unfair competition—for selling counterfeit and gray market Rockwell-branded manufacturing products in the United States.

Alston & Bird has been ranked the No. 1 best performing firm overall representing complainants and respondents in Section 337 investigations conducted by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).

Scott Stevens, Nicholas Marais, and Karlee Wroblewski are noted for successfully representing Redfin Corporation in a patent infringement lawsuit.