Mr. Clonts’ recent experience includes:

Litigation

• defending one of the world’s largest semiconductor memory chip manufacturers against patent infringement claims to a take-nothing jury verdict in New Jersey. The case was named in the National Law Journal’s 2007 “Defense Hot List.”
• defending one of the nation’s top broadband communications providers in three patent cases to favorable settlements, two in the Eastern District of Texas
• representing successfully a patentee against a competitor for the patent infringement of a radar detector patent
• representing successfully the plaintiff in a multimillion-dollar patent suit regarding encryption technology in garage door openers; case settled in favor of our client on the eve of trial
• representing an indemnity defendant in litigation and successfully obtaining an indemnity following settlement of a set-top cable-box technology patent
• representing a plaintiff alleging infringement of a patent related to blades for use in microkeratomes, ophthalmic devices used in LASIK; settled favorably to client, with defendant exiting the business
• defending client against patent infringement claims regarding answering-machine technology; case settled on terms favorable for client

Long-Term Counseling Relationships

• advice, counseling and litigation to one of the top ophthalmic medical device companies for over 15 years, focusing on refractive medical devices, lasers and lenses
• strategic counseling and opinion work for one of the nation’s top telecommunications service providers for nearly 10 years, focusing on mobile telephony, network systems and business methods
• counseling, strategic transaction analysis and patent litigation for one of the nation’s top broadband providers for over five years, focusing on network technology, routing and content delivery.