(Tyler, Texas – January 20, 2016) After a successful defense, Judge Gilstrap today granted Apple’s Bill of Costs in the amount of $420,000. This came two months to the day after a jury verdict denying Plaintiff ContentGuard’s contentions in the Eastern District of Texas’s case 2:13-cv-1112.
ContentGuard was represented by a team 17-deep from McKool Smith, including Samuel Baxter, Robert Cote, David Dehoney, Craig Donahue, Holly Engelmann, Shahar Harel, Seth Hasenour, Radu Lelutiu, Angela Vorpahl, Christopher Mierzejewski, Dana Vallera, Dirk Thomas, Eric Sorensen Hansen, John Briody, Jonathan Yim, Karla Valenzuela, and Rosemary Tyson Snider.
Apple matched that 17, hiring Sidley Austin LLP’s Bryan K Anderson, Bryan Blumenkopf, David L Anderson, David Pritikin, Jeffrey Kushan, John Wisse, Kelly Krellner, Michael Franzinger, Nathan Greenblatt, Nathaniel Love, Richard Cederoth, Ryan Phelan, Scott Border, Theodore Whitley Chandler, Thomas Broughan III, Wonjoo Suh; and locally by Melissa Smith of Gillam & Smith.