The 2024 edition of Texas Super Lawyers, published by Thomson Reuters, has named five DiNovo Price partners – Andrew DiNovo, Adam Price, Christopher Goodpastor, Gregory Donahue, and Gabriel Gervey – to its list of Super Lawyers. Associate attorney, Michael French, has been named to its list of Rising Stars.   

DiNovo Price LLP has again been included in the 2024 edition of Best Law Firms®. Best Law Firms, according to the official press release, is “the oldest and most respected Purely Peer Review® research and accolades company;” and it publishes this annual, peer-reviewed guide to the legal profession worldwide. The 14^th edition of the publication recognizes DiNovo Price as a Metropolitan Tier 1 firm in Litigation – Patent. The official press release is available here.
 

DiNovo Price is pleased to announce a victory on behalf of our client Bandspeed, LLC (“Bandspeed”). On October 13, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, denied the motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction of defendant Realtek Semiconductor Corporation (“Realtek”), finding that plaintiff Bandspeed had “made a prima facie showing that Realtek is subject to personal jurisdiction by this court under Rule 4(k)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
 

Blizzard Entertainment said it has settled claims that popular games like World of Warcraft and Diablo infringe a Luxembourg company's patents, notifying a Texas federal court of the deal just a day before the trial was set to kick off.

A Texas federal judge denied a summary judgment bid from incoming Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment Inc. on Wednesday, rejecting its attempt to escape a suit accusing it of infringing a networking patent.

DiNovo Price is pleased to announce a victory on behalf of our client KOM Software, Inc (“KOM”). On August 17, 2020 and September 22, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) issued its final written decisions on three petitions for inter partes review filed by NetApp, Inc. against KOM’s U.S. Patent Nos. 6,654,864 and 9,361,243 relating to restricting access to a storage medium. The PTAB found that multiple claims of U.S. Patent 6,654,864 and U.S. Patent 9,361,243 “have not been shown to be unpatentable."

A Federal Circuit panel on Wednesday partly rebooted a patent infringement suit against Amazon.com Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment Inc., ruling that a Texas federal judge wrongly deemed certain claims indefinite when their scope and meaning are “reasonably ascertainable by a skilled artisan.”

Samsung can't throw out a jury's $5.9 million infringement verdict over claims its tablets and smartphones infringe a German company's patent on data transfers, a Texas federal judge ruled, saying there's substantial evidence to support the jury's finding and that courts should be "especially deferential" to a jury's verdict.

The final approval on the deal comes years after dentists first launched a series of litigation accusing three dominant distributors of artificially inflating prices.

An Eastern District of Texas jury has slapped Samsung with a $5.9 million verdict, finding it infringed two claims of German intellectual property licensing company Papst’s patent covering data transfers that occur in smartphones and tablets.

DiNovo Price LLP attorneys Christopher Goodpastor, Nicole Glauser, and Gabriel Gervey appeared on behalf of Lonny Gold and Glen Reder, proposed lead Plaintiffs for a putative class of consumer vehicle purchasers and lessees in In re German Automotive Manufacturers Antitrust Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

In In re Dental Supplies Antitrust Litigation, Putative Class Plaintiff dental practices and dental labs defeated the respective motions to dismiss of defendants Henry Schein, Patterson Dental and Benco.

DiNovo Price LLP filed a proposed antitrust class action on behalf of dental practices and laboratories alleging that the three largest U.S. distributors of dental supplies and equipment fixed price margins, pressured manufacturers to boycott competitors, and agreed not to poach each other’s employees.