Fliesler Meyer establishes long term relationships with our clients. These close relationships facilitate the development of broad based, quality intellectual property portfolios for our clients.

We become familiar with the specific business and technology of our clients. This knowledge is often obtained directly through working closely with principals of the organization and through the preparation and prosecution of patents and trademarks for our clients.

The technical sophistication of our attorneys enables us to work closely and comfortably with client inventors on their technical level. Our expertise in patent law and our understanding of the business of high‑technology companies supports our ability to devise comprehensive strategies to protect our clients' technologies.

Fliesler Meyer provides a full range of intellectual property services including:

•  Identifying and managing clients' intellectual property matters (assets, liabilities and procedures);
   

• Counseling clients in the development and implementation of business and legal strategies for obtaining and protecting patents, copyrights, trademarks, mask works, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights;
   

•  Working with clients to develop business and legal strategies for trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual property;
   

• Conducting non‑infringement and invalidity analysis on behalf of our clients;
   

• Advising clients on procedures for, and adequacy of, avoidance of potentially valid patents through technical design‑around;
   

• Negotiating, preparing, administering and enforcing intellectual property agreements and transfers (licenses, technology transfers, foundry agreements, assignments and similar matters)
   

• Preparing and prosecuting patents, trademark and copyright applications in the United States and throughout the world, including all phases of advanced prosecution such as patent appeals, re‑examinations and interferences;

Below are some Representative Litigation of the firm's:

ADE v. Genmark Automation
Counsel for Genmark in a patent infringement Action involving a patent relating to wafer handling apparatus.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Alliance Semiconductor
Co‑counsel for Advanced Micro Devices ("AMD") in a patent infringement Action involving two patents relating to fundamental flash memory architecture.

AMD v. Altera Corporation
Co‑counsel for AMD in a patent infringement Action involving AMD's popular MACH family of complex programmable logic devices.

AMD v. Brooktree Corporation
Co‑counsel for AMD in a patent infringement Action involving an AMD patent relating to a method of fabricating semiconductor devices.

AMD v. Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor v. AMD
Co‑counsel for AMD in patent infringement Actions involving technology relating to complex programmable logic devices.

AMD v. Gazelle Microelectronics
Samsung v. AMD
AMD v. Atmel Corporation
AMD v. Cypress Semiconductor
Co‑counsel for AMD in four Actions based on a patent covering AMD's 22V10 programmable logic device.

AMD v. Hyundai Electronics America
Co‑counsel for AMD in an Action for misappropriation of AMD's trade secrets relating to flash memory technology and architecture.

Amdahl Corporation v. Isogon Corporation
Isogon Corporation v. Amdahl Corporation
Counsel for Amdahl in patent infringement Actions relating to software auditing and assessment services.

Americana Trading Company v. Russ Berrie
Counsel for defendant in a trademark infringement Action.

Asyst Technologies v. Jenoptik
Counsel for Asyst Technologies in an Action for infringement of an Asyst patent relating to semiconductor wafer handling equipment.

Auspex Systems v. Apogee Systems
Counsel for Auspex Systems in an Action for infringement of an Auspex patent relating to network file servers.

Bingo Card Minder Corporation v. Power Bingo Corporation
Counsel for Power Bingo Corporation in a patent infringement Action relating to electronic bingo handsets.

Brooktree Corporation v. AMD
Co‑counsel for AMD in a patent and mask work infringement Action relating to color palette chips. This was the first case tried under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act.

California Amplifier v. Pacific Monolithics
Counsel for Pacific Monolithics in a patent infringement Action involving wireless broadband encryption technology.

Civix DDI v. Microsoft Corporation, Infoseek, Inc., et al
Counsel for Infoseek in a patent infringement Action relating to electronic mapping technology.

Conner Peripherals v. Western Digital
Western Digital v. Conner Peripherals
IBM v. Conner Peripherals
Co‑counsel for Conner Peripherals in Actions for alleged infringement of patents owned by all three parties relating to various architectural, mechanical and electrical disk drive technologies.

Data East USA v. Epyx
Counsel for Data East USA in a trademark and copyright infringement Action. Obtained an injunction concerning infringement of video game technology that was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Datrek v. Encompass
Trial counsel for plaintiff in an Action relating to ownership of mainframe banking software.

Diamond Multimedia and Micron Technology v. Lans
Counsel for plaintiffs in a declaratory judgment Action for non‑infringement and invalidity of a patent involving color graphics display systems used in video cards. This Action is being monitored by the personal computer industry in view of defendant/patent owner's allegations of infringement against numerous major computer system manufacturers.

Etak, Inc. v. Zexel USA
Co‑counsel for Etak in a patent infringement Action relating to vehicle navigation systems.

Electronics For Imaging, Inc. v. Harlequin, Inc., Compose Systems, Inc., et al
Counsel for Compose Systems in a patent infringement Action relating to color printer and RIP technolo gy.

Franklin Computer v. Central Point Software
Counsel for Central Point in an Action for software copyright infringement and breach of contract.

Hilgraeve Corporation v. Symantec Corporation
Counsel for Symantec in a patent infringement Action relating to Symantec's anti‑virus software products for desktop, network and Internet applications.

High Tech Medical Instrumentation v. New Image Industries, Inc.
Counsel for New Image Industries in a patent infringement Action involving intra‑oral video cameras. Published Opinion: High Tech Medical v. New Image Industries, 49 F.3d 1551 (Fed. Cir. 1995).

IPLearn LLC v. Ask Jeeves, Inc.
Counsel for IPLearn in a patent infringement Action involving a natural‑language method for answering questions.

Linear Technology Corporation v. Impala Linear Corporation, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, et al.
Co‑counsel for Impala and Toyoda in a patent infringement Action relating to power supply chips.

Maxim Integrated Products v. Impala Linear Corporation, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, et al.
Co‑counsel for Impala and Toyoda in a patent infringement Action relating to power supply chips.

Maxim Integrated Products v. Teledyne Semiconductor
Counsel for Teledyne in an Action for alleged infringement of a Maxim patent relating to linear integrated circuit devices and counterclaims against Maxim for false designation of origin, unfair competition and dilution.

Monticelli v. PG&E
Co‑counsel for the plaintiff in an Action relating to a method of abating hydrogen sulfide emissions from geothermal power generation plants. Obtained a favorable settlement for the patent holder.

Network Appliances v. Auspex Systems
Co‑counsel for Auspex in a declaratory judgment Action asserting non‑infringement and invalidity of an Auspex patent relating to network file servers.

Nintendo v. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Co‑counsel for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in an Action involving allegations of design patent, mask work and copyright infringement.

North Star Computers v. Servio Logic Corp.
Counsel for Servio Logic in an Action for misappropriation of trade secrets and employee raiding.

Pacific Monolithics v. California Amplifier
Counsel for Pacific Monolithics in a patent infringement Action relating to Pacific Monolithics' design patent.

Pacific Telesis v. Allied Telesis
Counsel for Allied Telesis in an Action for alleged infringement of Pacific Telesis' trademarks, service marks and trade names, and counterclaims against Pacific Telesis for unfair competition and false designation of origin.

Pure Software v. Platinum Technology, Inc.
Counsel for Platinum in a patent infringement Action relating to software tools for detecting memory access errors.

PCPC v. Symantec Corporation
Counsel for Symantec in a patent infringement Action relating to network backup software. Rodime,

P.L.C. v. Conner Peripherals
Counsel for Conner Peripherals in a patent infringement Action concerning disk drive technology.

SyQuest Technology v. Micro Storage
As counsel for SyQuest Technology in an Action for the misappropriation of disk drive technology.

Telecommunications Technology v. Wiltron
Counsel for Wiltron in an Action for misappropriation of trade secrets and infringement of patents relating to telecommunications test equipment.

Trend v. Symantec Corporation and McAfee Corporation
Counsel for Symantec in a patent infringement Action involving Symantec's Norton Anti‑Virus software products for the Internet.

UltraPure v. HTC and Kinetic Systems, Inc.
As counsel for Kinetic Systems, successfully defended against claim of trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation for ultra‑high purity semiconductor processing equipment fittings.

Welch Allyn v. New Image
Co‑counsel for New Image in a patent infringement Action involving technology relating to intra‑oral endoscopes.