Clients choose Fish to assist with resolving a wide range of business disputes. Our litigators have a record of obtaining excellent results in federal and state courts across the country. We can deliver the benefits of our nationwide experience, and familiarity with local courts and practice. In addition to having an excellent track record in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation, our litigation practice includes lawyers with jury trial experience in a wide range of commercial cases, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, white collar criminal defense, antitrust, unfair competition, employment, qui tam, insurance coverage disputes, and class action cases. We have substantial experience in internal corporate and government investigations.

Our Record of Success

Recent victories include:

• a bet-the-company technology license/breach of contract case involving development and OEM manufacturing of medical devices. We tried the case to a 3 member AAA panel and we prevailed completely;
• an insurance coverage dispute for a leading childrens' hospital for coverage of claims paid in qui tam litigation;
• a software licensing dispute over use of proprietary software, where, during arbitration, we obtained a judgment that defendant breached the licensing contract and we were awarded full damages and permanent injunction;
• a soon-to-be concluded favorable settlement of contract dispute, where one party brought a breach action against the other for nonpayment of goods;
• a technology license dispute between Dreamworks SKG and AMD;
• a number of significant suits against a telephone company on behalf of municipalities for breach of franchise contracts;
• a breach of contract suit over a merger agreement, which, on appeal after a favorable verdict, settled for $35,000,000 payment to our client;
• a lawsuit against a major insurer for breach of contract, where we obtained summary judgment in favor of our client, Dallas Basketball, for $1.8 million.

Our success has been recognized by others; five of our victories have been included on the National Law Journal biggest winners list:

Year	Case Name  (F&R client in bold)	Result
2004	Arendi v. Microsoft Corp.	defense verdict
2000	Bellcore v. FORE	defense judgment
1999	Power Integrations v. Motorola, Inc.	$32.3 million
1998	ITI v. Ademco Distribution, Inc.	$36 million
1998	US, ex rel Battaglia v. Texas Data Control	defense verdict, $15 million award on counter claim (Dallas Office)
1997	Quantel, Ltd. v. Adobe Systems, Inc.	defense verdict

More information about recent wins can be found in our Litigation Updates:

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