Intellectual Property
Judge Robert A. Baines (Ret.) has over 39 years of litigation experience, including 22 years on the trial bench in Santa Clara County during which he handled numerous high-profile “only in Silicon Valley” IP matters.
Judge Baines has remained heavily involved in IP cases while at JAMS.
Representative Mediations:
- Successfully resolved a number of cases involving alleged theft or misuse of trade secrets, including:
- Claim by well-respected software pioneer that internationally prominent graphics software company stole his concept for a meta-data retrieval program that he had previously unsuccessfully “pitched” to that company.
- Claim by computer parts company that departing employee had taken trade secrets, including confidential customer lists, to new employer and inappropriately used them there.
- Claim by software licensee that licensor had intentionally failed to reveal that the licensed software was already subject to claims of infringement by a third party, resulting in licensee being sued for infringement by that third party.
- Claim of unauthorized use of Plaintiff’s personal image in Defendants’ advertising campaign.
- Successfully resolved matters involving the allegedly sub-standard production of specialty microprocessors and microcontrollers.
- Settled software developer’s claims of misappropriation and under-reported license usage brought against “flagship” Silicon Valley networking company.
- Resolved a number of claims of alleged violation of licensing agreements, including one between two well-known Silicon Valley navigational software giants.
Representative Arbitrations:
- Served on tripartite arbitration panel hearing multi-million dollar dispute over whether software development firm had performed its contract with a consortium of Fortune 500 companies to produce a secure, portable, and reliable system for maintaining and accessing digital health records for employees of those companies.
- Dispute over whether a firm that provided website usage monitoring and research services had properly performed under its agreement.