interference with prospective economic advantage against German rival Broetje Automation and its American subsidiary Broetje Automation USA. Persuaded the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to reverse the US Patent and Trademark Office's refusal to give The Hershey Company a trademark registration for the design of its iconic chocolate bar. Represented ConsumerInfo.com, Inc., owner of the FreeCreditReport.com® trademark and website, and part of the Experian family of companies, in its successful suit against competitors One Technologies LP and Adaptive Marketing LLC for registering and using domain names similar to FreeCreditReport.com®. Represented the former Chairman and CEO of IT management solutions company CA, Inc. in a series of securities class action and derivative cases. Achieved a victory for clients Vintage Pharmaceuticals and Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings in a 2012 case involving allegedly improperly packaged birth control pills by securing a denial of a plaintiff's motion for class certification and a partial grant of summary judgment. Won a California federal court order on behalf of Complete Genomics, which granted a summary judgment invalidating all nine of Illumina's claims to a patent covering a DNA sequencing method that Complete Genomics was accused of infringing. Obtained summary judgment for 15 of the leading brand name prescription drug manufacturers and PhRMA, their trade association, in Clayworth, et al. v. Pfizer Inc, et al., dismissing on the merits an action by California retail pharmacies alleging a conspiracy among brand name prescription drug manufacturers to fix prices in violation of the Cartwright Act, California's state antitrust law. Helped its clients OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Pfizer, Inc. and Genentech, Inc. successfully defeat a challenge by generic drug manufacturer, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Mylan), which was seeking FDA approval to market a generic version of Tarceva®. Represented 4Kids Entertainment, Inc., an entertainment and media company that has managed the US licensing, broadcast and merchandising rights to many popular Japanese animated shows including Yu-Gi-Oh!, in the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This reorganization plan was named one of the Most Successful Restructurings of 2012 by Turnarounds & Workouts. Successfully defended Pfizer units Wyeth and Pharmacia & Upjohn in Hines v. Wyeth, et al in West Virginia. After a three-week trial, the jury found that the clients' HT products did not cause the plaintiff's breast cancer and that plaintiff's claims were time-barred by the applicable statute of limitation. Represented Wyeth in a landmark victory (Wyeth v. Kappos) in January 2010, successfully challenging, at the district court