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L. Kieran Kieckhefer

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Silicon Valley

t: +1 650 815 7414 f: +1 650 396 5499
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Kieran Kieckhefer focuses her practice on patent, copyright and trade secrets law.

Kieran is an intellectual property trial lawyer. She has participated in eleven trials involving patent, antitrust, copyright, trade secrets, breach of employment contracts, criminal and family law subject areas. She is currently serving as co-lead counsel on a large patent case and has previously served as lead counsel on six trials, trial counsel on two other trials, and has participated in three other large intellectual property trials.

Kieran has litigated patent, copyright and trade secret cases in federal courts across the country, and also has a breadth of experience before federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, Federal Circuit and the US Supreme Court. She has handled cases in fields such as software, internet-related technologies and semiconductor design technologies. 

Kieran is actively involved in the support and mentorship of women in the law. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kieran previously worked at another top Am Law 100 firm in Silicon Valley and, in 2012, had the privilege of serving the City and County of San Francisco as an assistant district attorney.

Résultats

  • Radware v. F5 Networks (trial): Trial counsel for Radware in a patent infringement action on computer networking technologies before Judge Whyte in the Northern District of California; successfully secured jury verdict of $6.4M in damages and a finding that F5’s infringement was willful; also obtained a permanent injunction against F5
  • Netlist v. Diablo (trial): Trial counsel for Diablo in a two-week jury trial before Judge Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of California concerning storage and memory modules; successfully obtained a verdict of in favor of Diablo on breach of contract, technical trade secrets and inventorship claims
  • Radware v. A10 Networks: Successfully represented Radware in a patent infringement action before Judge Whyte in the Northern District of California; the case involved two patents on computer networking technologies
  • Brocade v. A10 Networks (trial): Part of team that successfully represented Brocade in a patent, copyright and trade secret infringement action before Judge Grewal in the Northern District of California; after a three week trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict awarding Brocade US$112 million in compensatory, as well as punitive damages against A10 and its CEO, Lee Chen
  • MGA v. Mattel (trial): Successfully represented MGA Entertainment in a four-month jury trial in the Central District of California and obtained a US$88 million verdict for MGA based on a finding of willful and malicious misappropriation of trade secrets against Mattel; successfully defended Mattel’s contentions as well, establishing MGA’s uncontested ownership rights in Bratz; the case involved numerous claims including copyright, trade secret, Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), trademark and trade dress and unfair competition
  • Mattel v. MGA (appeal): Successfully represented MGA Entertainment in breach of contract, copyright infringement and trademark infringement appeal to the Ninth Circuit; successfully vacated an injunction preventing MGA, the maker of Bratz dolls, from producing or marketing any Bratz dolls and requiring MGA to turn over its entire US$1 billion a year trademark portfolio to Mattel
  • Rambus Inc. v. Hynix, et al. (trial): Represented Nanya and Nanya USA in a two-month jury trial before Judge Whyte in the Northern District of California regarding Sherman Act Section 2 violations alleged against Rambus; also represented Nanya and Nanya USA in a patent infringement case before Judge Whyte in the Northern District of California regarding Rambus’s assertion of memory technology patents against features incorporated in Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC)-standard dynamic random access memory (DRAM)

Diplômes et Références

Formation
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison, JD, 2007
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS, Mathematics, 2002
Admissions
  • Californie
  • Wisconsin
Courts / Agencies
  • Cour d’appel des États-Unis pour le circuit fédéral
  • Cour d’appel des États-Unis pour le neuvième Circuit
  • US District Court for the Central District of California
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

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Activité Communautaire

  • Retention of Women in Intellectual Property taskforce, co-founder
  • Successful Women in Intellectual Property Forums, organizer, moderator and/or panelist
  • Women in the Law Forums, panelist

Credentials

Formation
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison, JD, 2007
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS, Mathematics, 2002
Admissions
  • Californie
  • Wisconsin
Courts / Agencies
  • Cour d’appel des États-Unis pour le circuit fédéral
  • Cour d’appel des États-Unis pour le neuvième Circuit
  • US District Court for the Central District of California
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Compétences et Secteurs Clés

  • Propriété Intellectuelle
  • International Trade Commission
  • Patent Litigation
  • Technology
  • Technology - Intellectual Property
  • Trade Secrets

Marchés Régionaux

  • United States

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