Kirkland & Ellis partner Gregory Arovas’s latest assignment for client Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., is going to require some pretty maniacal multitasking, considering the multitude of cell phone patents he’s fighting over on a range of different fronts.
Seoul-based Samsung is battling it out with Sweden’s AB Ericsson over the patents behind the new generation of turbocharged cell phones, which let users scan the Web and view movie trailers and Super Bowl highlights at broadband speeds. And did we mention that there are a lot of those patents? Indeed, according to Arovas’s count, two infringement suits that Samsung and Ericsson filed against each other in the Eastern District of Texas in early 2006 involve 59 separate patents. Plus, as Arovas notes, the two companies are currently locked in parallel infringement fights in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, which involve at least another handful of separate patents.
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