Washington, D.C., March 28, 2022 – Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP is pleased to announce that Andrew Kopsidas has joined as a partner in the Intellectual Property and International Trade practices in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He joins after 21 years at Fish & Richardson P.C., where he was a principal.

“We are very excited about Andrew’s arrival to the firm,” said Ted Mayer, chair of Hughes Hubbard. “He is a preeminent IP litigator who has litigated 25 cases before the International Trade Commission (ITC) with a strong track record of successful outcomes. His wealth of experience, particularly in patent and trade secrets litigation, and his procedural knowledge, mark a significant addition to our capabilities when it comes to supporting and protecting our clients.”

Kopsidas represents companies in a range of industries including internet services, telecommunications and aerospace & defense, and he assists clients in solving problems relating to issues with technology, trade secrets and intellectual property disputes. He has handled patent and intellectual property matters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the U.S. International Trade Commission and U.S. district courts in dozens of states. He has litigated cases involving autonomous vehicles, internet applications, microprocessors, telecommunications networks and standards, mobile technology, digital signal processing and various software products.

Ryan Fayhee, who leads Hughes Hubbard’s Sanctions, Export Controls & Anti-Money Laundering practice, said, “Andrew’s joining is a big win for us and for our clients. His knowledge and experience handling patent and intellectual property matters – especially at the International Trade Commission – deepens our bench strength and ensures that we can handle the most significant cross border issues our clients face. Andrew is a great addition to our team and we are looking forward to working with him.”

“We are fortunate to have such an accomplished, brilliant, and versatile litigator join our IP team,” said James Dabney, head of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice group.

“I’m delighted to be joining Hughes Hubbard. They have an incredibly strong core group of intellectual property practitioners and cross border litigators with deep experience in the tech sector that can service my existing clients from day one,” said Kopsidas. “In addition, there is such a broad range of expertise at HHR that we’ll be able to offer clients complete solutions to their legal issues. We are a natural fit for each other.”

He has a background in aerospace and electric engineering. Before going to law school, he worked at NASA as a flight controller and systems engineer on the Hubble Space Telescope and several Space Shuttle missions. He also worked as an aerospace design engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Kopsidas also takes pride in training lawyers and donating his time to pro bono causes. He is an instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (“NITA”) courses on trial and deposition skills, and his 2019 verdict of $1.5 million on behalf of a victim of human trafficking earned The Human Trafficking Legal Center’s “Litigation Firm of the Year” award.

He received his JD from George Washington University Law School and his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University in Maryland. He is the third hire in three months to the Washington, D.C. office; Kevin Carroll, a white collar and investigations litigator and an Army Reserve colonel with Top Secret clearance, joined the firm in February and former U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown joined the firm in December 2021, both bolstering Hughes Hubbard’s White Collar and Anti-Corruption groups.

Womble Bond Dickinson announced that Rodney R. Miller has joined the firm as a partner on the IP Litigation Team. He is based in the firm’s Atlanta office.

A registered patent attorney, Rodney concentrates his practice on intellectual property matters, including due diligence, licensing and transactional work, patent office post-grant review, and litigation. He has represented public and private companies defending against claims of patent infringement and has also represented companies in obtaining, protecting, licensing, and enforcing intellectual property.

“The firm has long been committed to growing and strengthening its IP practice, in particular IP litigation, and Rodney delivers against that strategic imperative,” said Dr. Christian E. Mammen, Leader of the Firm’s IP Litigation Team. “He is a talented litigator, and his strong technical background will greatly benefit our clients.”

Rodney has litigated intellectual property cases across numerous industries, including telecommunication, semiconductors, Internet protocols, operating systems, hardware and software storage systems, user interface, and pharmaceuticals. He is admitted to the State Bars of Texas and Georgia, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and the U.S. District Courts of the Northern District of Georgia, Eastern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, and Western District of Texas.

“Given the steady year-over-year growth of patent litigation filings, 2022 looks to be another busy year for my clients,” said Rodney. “I am excited to introduce them to Womble’s full-service, transatlantic platform, and look forward to growing my practice within such a collaborative culture.”

The addition of Rodney follows a string of strong hires within the firm’s IP Litigation Team, including leading IP trial lawyer Fabio E. Marino and veteran IP litigation partner Steve M. Levitan.

Rodney is a graduate of George Tech, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston Law Center. Prior to law school, he served as a controls and energy solutions sales engineer for an American multinational home appliances corporation.

Rodney joins Womble from Hall Booth Smith, P.C., where he co-chaired the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group.

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About the IP Litigation Team
The Womble Bond Dickinson (US) IP Litigation team helps clients protect and defend their business interests. The team represents companies in asserting claims against infringers and defending against claims of infringement. Their broad litigation experience includes assertions of patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and related antitrust or unfair competition claims. From 2014 to 2019, the team handled more than 400 intellectual property cases in 45 federal district courts.

About Womble Bond Dickinson
Womble Bond Dickinson is a transatlantic law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers based in 26 U.K. and U.S. office locations serving clients across every business sector. The firm provides core legal services including Commercial; Corporate; Employment and Pensions; Dispute Resolution and Litigation; Finance: Banking, Restructuring, Insolvency; I.P., Technology and Data; Private Wealth; Projects, Construction and Infrastructure; Real Estate; and Regulatory Law.

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Aaron Chaloner has joined the firm’s Nashville office as a senior attorney in the Intellectual Property Practice Group.

“Aaron’s technical background in neuroscience gives him a unique lens into the intersection of legal and scientific issues, allowing him to provide an exceptionally high level of service to clients in the biotechnology industry, while also expanding the depth of the capabilities our team offers,” said Bradley Nashville Office Managing Partner Lauren Jacques.

Dr. Chaloner focuses his practice on patent prosecution in the life science and biotechnology industry. He is experienced in all stages of intellectual property prosecution and provides strategic counsel to his clients regarding copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret concerns. Dr. Chaloner completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where he studied technical skills including physiology, neuroscience, epigenetics, neuroendocrine signaling, behavioral sciences, whole animal studies and surgical procedures, and biochemistry.

A graduate of the Oklahoma City University School of Law, Dr. Chaloner earned his undergraduate degree from Baylor University. He is a frequent author on scientific intellectual property issues and has presented his research at national and international scientific meetings.

Bradley’s Intellectual Property Practice Group demonstrates the skills and tenacity needed to protect and defend the valuable IP rights of clients. With more than 20 licensed patent attorneys, the firm’s national practice offers a full range of services to protect and enforce the intellectual property rights of businesses across a variety of industries.

About Bradley
Bradley combines skilled legal counsel with exceptional client service and unwavering integrity to assist a diverse range of corporate and individual clients in achieving their business goals. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm’s almost 600 lawyers represent regional, national and international clients in various industries, including banking and financial services, construction, energy, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, and technology, among many others.

NEW YORK –March 23, 2022— Epiq, a technology-enabled services leader to global corporate legal departments and law firms, announced today that Epiq Discovery, a critical element of the Epiq Service Cloud, has been identified by G2 as one of the best eDiscovery software products on the market. The ranking is based on its high levels of customer satisfaction and likeliness to recommend ratings from real users on G2, the world’s leading business solutions review website. This comes at the same time the company rolls out significant product enhancements to further improve user experience and outcomes driven by its proprietary eDiscovery solution.

Epiq Discovery is a cloud-based, SaaS platform that supports the entire lifecycle of a matter and is designed to serve Epiq’s global client base. Epiq Discovery has proven to be very popular among corporate legal departments and law firms for a variety of self-service use cases, including investigations, employee matters, and litigations, as well as for self-service processing. An important new enhancement is the ability to promote data, as needed, to Relativity through a seamless integration. This “Transfer to Relativity” functionality supports field mapping, migration of extracted document metadata and user applied coding/tagging. It also supports custom foldering by custodian, file path and data source. Users can easily promote data to a Relativity workspace and seamlessly continue the review process that began in Epiq Discovery.

“Clients can use Epiq Discovery for simplified and lower-cost culling, review and production, and most find that 85% of their matters can be fully managed within the platform.” said Eric Crawley, Senior Vice President, Legal Solutions at Epiq. “But when a matter grows complex enough to require Relativity, our seamless integration allows for an easy transition between systems. This simple-to-use functionality strengthens what is already a top-rated eDiscovery solution based on G2 user reviews.”

The value of Epiq Discovery to its users is demonstrated by its recognition as one of the top eDiscovery solutions by G2 in their Spring 2022 rankings. “Rankings on G2 reports are based on data provided to us by real users,” said Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer at G2. “We are excited to share the achievements of the products ranked on our site because they represent the voice of the user and offer terrific insights to potential buyers around the world.”

Detailed information about Epiq Discovery and its enhanced features is available here on a new webpage. Learn more about what real users have to say about Epiq Discovery or leave your own review of Epiq Discovery on G2’s review page here.

About Epiq
Epiq, a global technology-enabled services leader to the legal industry and corporations, takes on large-scale, increasingly complex tasks for corporate counsel, law firms and business professionals with efficiency, clarity and confidence. Clients rely on Epiq to streamline the administration and transformation of business and legal operations, class action and mass tort, court reporting, eDiscovery, regulatory, compliance, restructuring and bankruptcy matters. Epiq subject-matter experts and technologies create efficiency through expertise and deliver confidence to high-performing clients around the world. Learn more at www.epiqglobal.com.
About G2

G2, the world’s leading business solution review platform, leverages more than 381,000 user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. Business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts use the site to compare and select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data. Every month, more than one million people visit G2’s site to gain unique insights.

“Love will be in the air in the nation’s capital this coming fall, when Naomi Biden, an associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, marries her longtime boyfriend. Biden, of course, is granddaughter to President Joe Biden, and earlier this week, she announced on Twitter that the affair would be taking place,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.

“According to the New York Times, Naomi’s future husband is Peter Neal of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Neal is a third-year student in his final semester at Penn Law. You may recognize his name as one of the creators of My CARES Act Benefits, an online quiz that calculates eligibility for federal relief. He spent the past summer working.”

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“Tekmovil is pleased to announce the addition of Global General Counsel, Matias Hercovich. In his position, Hercovich will lead the company’s worldwide transactional corporate and general legal affairs. We are delighted to welcome Matias to our growing enterprise,” said Claudia Rodriguez, COO,” reports PR Newswire in their blog.

“His highly credentialed experience will not only benefit our organization, but the clients and partners we represent as well. We look forward to having his legal expertise on our side. Prior to joining Tekmovil, Mr. Hercovich held the General Counsel position at biotech company Crystal Lagoons, the worldwide leader in large clear waterbodies.”

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“Three pharmaceutical companies agreed to pay a combined $453 million as part of a settlement to resolve claims that they suppressed generic versions of Glumetza. The settlement benefits entities who purchased generic or brand-name Glumetza directly from Bausch, Lupin, or Oceanside between May 6,” reports Top Class Actions in their blog.

“The following companies are excluded from the Class: Albertsons Companies Inc., Albertsons LLC, CVS Pharmacy Inc., H-E-B L.P., Humana Pharmacy Inc., Hy-Vee Inc., The Kroger Co., Rite Aid Corp., Rite Aid Hdqtrs. Corp., R&S Northeast LLC., and Walgreen Co. Glumetza is an extended release form of metformin used to treat type 2.”

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“Late last week, the three law firms spearheading a TikTok consumer privacy suit, which accused the company of  illegally sharing users’ data with the Chinese government, moved for an award of attorneys’ fees of 33.33% of the non-reversionary $92 million settlement. The filing stresses that plaintiffs,” reports Christina Tabacco in Law Street.

“Counsel investigated and developed the case on their own, engaged in over a year of litigation, directed experts to delve into TikTok’s source code, and pursued two hard-fought mediations. The case dates to the Trump Administration, when the short video 0sharing app came under scrutiny for its ties to the Chinese government.”

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“Blockchain technology has opened up a world of new possibilities. From decentralized finance (DeFi) to digital scarcity and ownership through NFTs, there’s been an explosion of innovation around products, services, and platforms,” reports moreReese and DJ in Decrypt.

“Cryptoeconomics and tokenization are unlocking new models for organization and ownership. The products, services, and platforms emerging from these new models are user-owned and operated, built for and by the communities they serve. These communities are composed of individuals from all parts of the globe, with diverse backgrounds and skillsets.”

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“The million-dollar question. Brian Horne, a senior insight and analytics consultant at the Energy Saving Trust, says a kettle is more efficient than a hob for heating water as it is heated from the inside, whereas the pan is heated from the outside and needs to get warm first. Kettles will boil water faster and,” reports Hilary Osborne in The Guardian.

“. But while gas hobs take much longer and use up to three times more energy in unit terms, the consumer group Which? says that because gas is cheaper than electricity (less than a third per unit), it works out slightly cheaper to boil water on a gas hob than using an electric kettle. This assumes you are boiling only the quantity you need.”

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“It has been almost two years since George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer with the assistance of three other officers. All four have been found guilty of a range of crimes, from murder to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Not much, it seems. On March 24, the Minneapolis City Council,” reports Sarah Lahm in The Progressive Magazine.

“Members approved a new contract with the Police Officers’ Federation of Minneapolis on an 8-5 vote, and the details are eye-popping—especially considering the violent and troubling track record of the city’s police department, There was a sense of urgency around settling this contract, thanks to endless news reports about rising crime.”

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“Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp are not the only members of the Rams parlaying Super Bowl-winning performances into new contracts. Coach Sean McVay and general manager Les Snead will receive extensions, chief operating officer Kevin Demoff said Tuesday at the NFL,” reports Gary Klein in Los Angeles Times.

“Snead and McVay received extensions after the Rams lost to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII at the end of the 2018 season. They have two years remaining on those deals. They have an amazing working relationship, Demoff said. You’d be foolish, when you look at how hard it is in this league to win, not to try to keep together.”

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“C.E. Solutions, Huntsville, won a federal contract award valued at up to $500,000 from the General Services Administration Federal Acquisition Service, Philadelphia, Penn., for participation in a multiple award schedule. The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management issued the following high-value,” reports Tom Mayer in The News Courier.

“Huntsville, was awarded a share of a combined $950 million ceiling, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to compete for future efforts associated with the maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains. The Air Force Life Cycle Management, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.”

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“The Ukraine government has turned to global law firms Covington & Burling and Withers, along with human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, to help prosecute war crimes in the Russian invasion of the country. The Task Force on Accountability for Crimes Committed in Ukraine will work to secure,” reports Elizabeth Olson in Bloomberg Law.

“Accountability and reparations in forums such as the International Criminal Court. Covington & Burling and Withers said they are working with the group. The Ukraine government has tapped several major law firms for work stemming from the invasion. It has also turned to human rights attorneys like Clooney, a lawyer for U.K. based.”

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“United Natural Foods, Inc. today announced that Mahrukh Hussain has been appointed to the position of General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, with oversight of the Company’s legal and governance activities in support of its long-term growth strategy. Hussain, who currently serves as McDonald’s,” reports Business Wire in their blog.

“Mahrukh is a great addition to UNFI as she brings a wealth of experience overseeing large corporate legal functions with a passion for building collaborative support teams, said Mr. Douglas. With our focus on helping customers grow and succeed and on continuing to expand market reach, UNFI’s legal function will be a critical link in support.”

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“A California federal judge was asked on Thursday to approve $165 million in new settlement agreements with the makers of an electronic component to resolve civil price-fixing claims. Plaintiffs’ lawyers representing direct purchasers said in a court filing that Nippon Chemi-Con Corp and United,” reports Mike Scarcella in Reuters.

“Also agreed to pay $160 million, and Matsuo Electric Co Ltd will pay $5 million, to resolve claims that they conspired to fix the prices of certain capacitors. Such components regulate currents in televisions, office equipment, mobile phones and other electronic devices. The settlement plan was first announced in December on the eve of.”

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“A subcontractor of River Link, the company in charge of the tolls on three Ohio River bridges between Louisville and Southern Indiana, has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement to close a lawsuit filed over late-fee notices. Gila LLC, sued by three Indiana residents who said they’d been,” reports Ana Rocio Alvarez Brinez in Courier Journal.

“Gila LLC, sued by three Indiana residents who said they’d been charged late fees over unpaid tolls before receiving their first bill, will pay $2.5 million to settle claims from drivers who said they were incorrectly billed, according to a settlement signed Feb. 18. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2019 and accused Gila LLC and Traffic Com USA.”

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“The pandemic brought more to Biglaw than just record revenues it also inspired some associates to find their true calling outside of the law. If you’ve been dreaming about escaping from behind your desk, you’re not alone. Read on to learn more about a highly pedigreed lawyer who left the Biglaw hive,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.

“Meet Michael Walsh, a Cambridge law graduate who worked in the London offices of Clifford Chance and Covington & Burling. In December 2021, Walsh decided that his career in project finance was no longer the bee’s knees, so he quit. It’s not all about the money, honey, so Walsh opted to start a business that would both help.”

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“Elkay Manufacturing is pleased to announce that Christine Bedi has been promoted to Vice President, General Counsel, effective March 28, 2022, following Kathy Deighan’s announced intentions to retire from that same role later this year. Kathy plans to lend her support in the transition while,” reports PR Newswire in their blog.

“Since joining the company as Corporate Attorney in 2017, Christine was promoted to Senior Corporate Counsel in February 2018 and then to Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary in 2021. During this time, Christine has provided legal support for numerous acquisitions and divestitures at Elkay while helping the.”

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“The good news for Sun Pharma is that it’s closed the books on one more legal problem it inherited from its Ranbaxy Laboratories buyout eight years ago. The bad: It’s going to cost the generics maker $485 million. Sun struck a settlement deal (PDF) worth $485 million to wrap up class-action claims,” reports Zoey Becker in Fierce Pharma.

“Ranbaxy’s faulty FDA approval filings kept low-priced generics off the market, the company said Wednesday. Sun, which bought Ranbaxy in 2014, admitted no wrongdoing. It agreed to the settlement to “resolve this dispute and avoid uncertainty, the company said in a filing. The settlement’s size may be small in comparison to the pharma.”

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