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EagleView s Adventures In IP Earn Co. $375M Enhanced Win
Law360 (February 16, 2021, 10:52 PM EST) A New Jersey federal judge granted EagleView treble damages on Tuesday following its $125 million trial win over Verisk Analytics for infringing its aerial imagery technology, admonishing Verisk for comparing the trial to Alice s Adventures in Wonderland by saying it was the defendants who sent the court down the rabbit hole.
U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb also awarded EagleView Technologies Inc. reasonable attorney fees, and pre- and post-judgment interest in a scathing order that said Verisk and its co-defendant, subsidiary Xactware Solutions, Inc., willfully infringed with specific animus toward EagleView, repeatedly tried to slip impermissible evidence into the trial and cited.
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Michael De Vries and Adam Alper are two intellectual property partners at Kirkland & Ellis who team up on almost every major case together, taking on litigation to protect companies from competitors stealing their ideas.
In the past 18 months, De Vries and Alper have racked up nearly $2 billion in verdicts and settlements, representing clients like Motorola, EagleView Technologies, and TriZetto.
While it s not uncommon for partners to collaborate on cases, the duo has taken that cooperative model to a new level.
De Vries and Alper first met while they were at different firms, and quickly noticed they shared the same values and visions for their field. They ve since worked together for around 13 years.