Notable Successes

Law360 recognized Desmarais LLP in its 13th annual Practice Group of the Year Awards in the Intellectual Property category. Law360 identifies law firms' landmark achievements and general excellence during 2022. Law360 chose the honorees from about 900 submissions.

Desmarais LLP secured several major intellectual property litigation victories during the last 12 months. In September 2022, the firm won a $272.5 million jury verdict, with a finding of willful infringement, for the biotech company Ravgen against LabCorp, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board upheld the patents in the case. In August 2022, Desmarais LLP earned a jury verdict of noninfringement for Cisco, defeating a $371 million patent infringement claim brought by the software company Egenera. And in February 2022, the firm reached a $1.25 billion settlement, plus royalties, for ViiV Healthcare and Shionogi & Co. with Gilead Sciences to end patent litigation on Gilead's triple-drug HIV therapy, Biktarvy.

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