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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property

Additional Information: Mr. Sacksteder is a partner in the Litigation Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in high technology and life sciences matters. Mr. Sacksteder practices out of the firm’s San Francisco office. Mr. Sacksteder’s practice focuses primarily on patent litigation and litigation involving other substantive areas of intellectual property law, including copyright, trade secret, trademark, and unfair competition.

Mr. Sacksteder has served as trial counsel in a number of patent and other intellectual property trials in United States District Court and has engaged in successful appellate practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has substantial experience in all aspects of pretrial litigation, including claim construction in patent cases.

Most recently, Mr. Sacksteder served as trial counsel for two defendants in a patent trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Although the plaintiff – a "non-practicing entity" – had sought $62 million in damages, the jury instead adopted the defendants' damages figure of $1.257 million. In 2007, Mr. Sacksteder represented Asyst Technologies in trial in the patent lawsuit Asyst Technologies v. Empak, et al. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The jury found Asyst’s patent valid and infringed, and awarded Asyst $74.7 million in lost profits damages for lost sales and price erosion.

In 2005, Mr. Sacksteder served as trial counsel for O2Micro in the trade secret and patent case O2Micro v. Monolithic Power Systems. The jury awarded O2Micro $12 million for the willful misappropriation of O2Micro's trade secrets and found that all asserted claims of Monolithic Power Systems' patents-in-suit were invalid and not infringed. Shortly before the O2Micro trial, Mr. Sacksteder served as trial counsel for plaintiff Compuware Corporation in the trade secret, copyright and antitrust case Compuware v. IBM. That case was settled in Compuware's favor for $400 million after being tried to a jury for five weeks.

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