Sanjeet Dutta

Intellectual Property Litigation

• Vineyard Investigations v. E. & J. Gallo Winery (E.D. Cal.) Defending E. & J. Gallo Winery in patent litigation relating to variable rate irrigation technology.
• Navigation Holdings v. Tung Shin (N.D. Cal.) Defending Defendants in Trade secret, breach of contract, and unfair competition litigation relating to aluminum alloy technology. 
• E. & J. Gallo Winery et al v. ILVO (E.D. Cal.) Trade secret, breach of contract, and unfair competition litigation on behalf of E. & J. Gallo Winery relating to refractance window drying technology.*
• Raytheon Company v. Cray, Inc. (E.D. Tex.). Patent litigation on behalf of Raytheon related to supercomputer architecture and management software.*
• Netlist, Inc. v. Diablo Technologies, Inc., et al. (N.D. Cal.).Defending Diablo in patent and trade secret litigation related to memory modules.*
• Skyhook Wireless, Inc. v. Google Inc. (D. Mass.). Defending Google in patent litigation concerning 13 patents related to location-based services.*
• In the Matter of Certain Portable Communications Devices (2012), USITC Inv. No. 337-TA-827. Represented respondent, Nokia, in patent litigation before the ITC Section 337 concerning four patents asserted against Nokia's Lumia handsets by Digitude, LLC.*

Patent Re-Examination/Review

• Responsible for leading a team that prepared and prosecuted two inter partes re-examination requests for highly litigated patents in the semiconductor chip packaging space.* 
• Responsible for leading a team that prepared three ex parte re-examination requests for patents involving power controller chips.*
• Responsible for leading a team that prepared nine inter partes re-examination requests for highly licensed patents relating to optical transceivers.*
• Responsible for leading a team that prepared and prosecuted three inter partes and an ex parte re-examination requests for patents relating to microfluidic patch clamp devices for high throughput assay testing.*
• Responsible for leading a team that prepared two ex parte re-examination requests for medical imaging devices.*
• Responsible for leading a team that prepared an ex parte re-examination request for biometric thumb print authentication security and access devices.*
• Responsible for preparing an inter partes re-examination request relating to a distributed client-based data caching system.*

Acquisitions and IP Counseling

• Advised Zoox on Patent issues relating to acquisition by Amazon. 
• Advised Acer on IP issues relating to the $900 million acquisition of Gateway.*
• Advised on a major technology company’s acquisition of voice-controlled personal assistant technology.*
• Advised on Twitter’s acquisition of Afterlive.tv.*
• Advised on a major technology company’s acquisition of 1Mainstream.*
• Advised on Volterra’s acquisition of Element Energy.*
• Advised on E. & J. Gallo Winery’s $1.7 billion acquisition of 30 brands from Constellation Brands.*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.