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Gabrielle E. Higgins
Partner
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Gabrielle Higgins focuses on intellectual property litigation, including patent and trademark infringement actions. She has litigated and tried numerous cases involving microprocessors, chipsets, analog and digital circuits, semiconductor processing, video games, and medical devices. Her litigation experience includes Markman hearings, jury and bench trials, International Trade Commission investigations, and mediations.
- Motorola v. Microsoft (ITC/W.D. Wisconsin/W.D. Washington): Represent Motorola in patent infringement actions involving the Xbox 360, Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9.
- OPTi Inc. v. Advanced Micro Devices (E.D. Texas): Successfully defended AMD in litigation over patents relating to memory controller circuitry and chips for personal computers. The case settled favorably after five days of trial, shortly before it would have been submitted to the jury.
- Worlds.com v. NCsoft Corp. (E.D. Texas/N.D. California): Successfully concluded litigation over patents directed to multiplayer online games, after transferring case from the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of California.
- Transmeta Corp. v. Intel Corp. (D. Delaware): Obtained $250 million settlement for Transmeta in a patent infringement case relating to 11 Transmeta patents and seven Intel patents on various computer processor power-saving and architectural technologies. The settlement was recognized as the top damage settlement of 2007 and was cited as one of the three “big cases“ by IP Law & Business.
- Linear Technology Corp. v. Impala et al. (N.D. California): Successfully represented Linear Technology in six-party litigation over patent related to high efficiency switching voltage regulators in which Linear attained a settlement valued in excess of $100 million.
- Linear Technology Corp. v. Micrel, Inc. (N.D. California): Obtained judgment for Linear Technology in litigation over a patent relating to transistor drive circuitry. After a two-week trial, the Court found that Linear’s patent was valid, enforceable, and infringed, and awarded enhanced damages for willful infringement.
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Education
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JD, Fordham University Law School, 1989
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BA (Premedical Studies, English), College of the Holy Cross, 1985
Bar Admissions
- California
- New York
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- California Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
- Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association
- International Trademark Association
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