Notable Successes

Tamir Packin

The National Law Journal recognized Partner Tamir Packin as a 2020 "Winning Litigator" for securing a major defense victory for Cisco Systems in a 2019 trial where a Massachusetts federal judge invalidated more than $400 million in infringement claims brought by the software company Egenera over a virtual networking patent.
 
Packin successfully argued at trial that the patent was invalid because the company had removed one of the original inventors from it. The multi-year case was an uphill battle because all the fact witnesses were either current or former Egenera employees and were represented by its counsel at trial, Packin told The National Law Journal. But Packin and the Desmarais LLP trial team pursued an aggressive strategy calling these witnesses adversely during Cisco’s case-in-chief. Packin’s questioning undermined their credibility and resulted in the judge referring to their testimony in his ruling as “historical revisionism.”
 
In addition to the Cisco victory, The National Law Journal spotlighted Packin’s two keys for success at trial:
 
1) There is only so much information a judge and jury can absorb at trial, so don’t be afraid to streamline your case and drop peripheral arguments.
 
2) Trials, especially large ones, are a team sport. Make sure your whole team knows the playbook, so you run like a well-oiled machine.
 
Read The National Law Journal story
 

Tamir Packin