Russ August & Kabat attorneys Marc Fenster, Benjamin Wang, Adam Hoffman, Paul Kroeger, Andrew Weiss, Jacob Buczko, and Justin Maio won a jury verdict for their client, SPEX Technologies, Inc., against Apricorn, Inc., for damages of $3.1 million for Apricorn’s infringement of U.S. Patent 6,088,802. The ‘802 Patent, originally granted to encryption pioneer Spyrus Inc., relates to hardware encryption on peripheral storage devices. The jury found that Apricorn had infringed all asserted claims. Validity was not tried, as the Court granted SPEX’s motion for summary judgment on validity prior to trial. Subsequent to trial, the Court entered judgment, including pre-trial interest, for $4,107,735. The trial was held in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, before the Honorable James Selna. The case is SPEX Technologies Inc. v. Apricorn, case number 2:16-cv-07349. Apricorn was represented by Michael J. Lyons, Christopher D. Bright, Carla B. Oakley, Hersh Mehta, Ehsun Forghany, and Thomas Y. Nolan of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
