Mr. Christopher Duane Bright

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Experience: Litigation
  trial counsel for respondent, a multinational conglomerate company, in an ITC investigation directed to LED packages
  products containing those packages
  Lead counsel for a consumer electronics company patent owner in a dispute regarding whether to institute IPR in the Patent Trial
  Appeal Board
  Lead counsel arguing for an intervenor, a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer
  its North American subsidiary, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in relation to an ITC determination
  Trial counsel for respondent, a major Japanese multinational electronics company, in an ITC investigation, including examinations of complainants'
  respondents' technical experts
  Lead counsel for petitioner, a leading manufacturer of automatic pool cleaners
  swimming pool accessories, in an IPR, including argument at final hearing before the Patent Trial
  Appeal Board
  Lead counsel arguing for defendant, a for-profit online college in patent claim construction hearing
  summary judgment briefing
  Trial counsel for respondent, a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer
  its North American subsidiary, in an ITC investigation, including examinations of complainants'
  respondents' technical experts
  Jury trial counsel for defendant, an American web services provider, including examinations of the plaintiff's
  defendant's damages experts
  Jury trial counsel for plaintiff, a California-based cloud-driven networking solutions company, in a three-patent case, including examinations of the only technical expert
  the named inventor
  Jury trial counsel for plaintiff, a leading educational technology company, including examinations of plaintiff's technical expert witness
  cross-examinations of defendant's technical fact witnesses
  Prepared arbitration briefing for a medical device manufacturer on a patent asserted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
  Lead counsel at final hearing argument regarding an interference in the U.S. Patent
  Trademark Office