Experience

Newell Rubbermaid
Intellectual Property
The plaintiff claimed that Newell Rubbermaid was marketing a curtain rod holder that infringed the plaintiff's design patent.

Insurance Auto Auctions
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin was retained by one of our clients to investigate whether one of its former employees had taken our client's confidential documents and trade secrets with him upon his departure from the company.

Calphalon Corporation
Intellectual Property
Schiff Hardin successfully obtained summary judgment in favor of our client, Calphalon Corporation, a division of Newell Rubbermaid Inc., in a patent infringement case involving Calphalon's popular "Professional Nonstick II" gourmet cookware products.

Kent State University
Patent Litigation
Schiff Hardin was retained in this patent infringement matter to appeal a judgment, entered after a jury trial, holding that our client's patent for liquid crystal display devices was invalid and not infringed.

Bunn-O-Matic
Trademark and Trade Dress Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Bunn-O-Matic Corporation in an action seeking to prevent infringement of its BUNN® trademark.

Thermos
Patent Litigation
Schiff Hardin brought a series of nine lawsuits over a three-year period on behalf of The Thermos Company and its parent, Nippon Sanso Corporation.

Hogan
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Hogan and his new employer, Turner Broadcasting Sales Inc., in defeating FX Network's motion for a temporary restraining order and then later in defeating FX Network's motion for a preliminary injunction.

Michael Jordan
Trademark and Trade Dress Litigation
Plaintiff accused our client Michael Jordan of infringing the plaintiff's registered trademark JORDAN®, by virtue of his association with Nike's JORDAN® brand line of clothing.

Eastman Kodak Company
Intellectual Property Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Eastman Kodak Company in recovering its $22-million investment in a failed printer development venture by asserting hard-to-win fraud and alter ego claims against a Fortune 10 company.

Dorel Industries Inc. and Cannondale Bicycle Corporation
Mergers and Acquisitions
Schiff Hardin acted as lead counsel in a major transaction for a public company that made business news headlines all over North America.

Ameriwood Industries, Inc.
Trade Secret Litigation
Attorneys from Schiff Hardin’s Chicago office obtained a significant victory for our client in a lawsuit against several of its former executives.

Lek Pharmaceuticals
Patent Litigation
In the Omeprazole patent litigation Schiff Hardin represented Lek Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Sandoz and Novartis, in its successful defense of AstraZeneca's patent infringement action regarding the plaintiff's Prilosec® product.

PepsiCo
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin filed an action on behalf of PepsiCo, Inc. against a former employee and his new employer, The Quaker Oats Company, seeking emergency and permanent injunctive relief.

Geneva and Novartis
Patent Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Geneva and Novartis in this case with respect to a generic version of the Claritin® brand before both the district and appellate courts.

Sanford
Trademark and Trade Dress Litigation
In 2005, Schiff Hardin attorneys obtained summary judgment, in the form of a 72-page decision in Sanford's favor.

AT&T Wireless
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin successfully represented AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. and Claircom Communications against plaintiff's allegations of trade secret misappropriation, in a case arising from air-to-ground telephone service technology for airline passengers.

Experian Marketing Solutions, Inc.
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin successfully defeated an employer’s motion for a temporary restraining order against a former employee seeking to prevent the employee from taking a new position with a competitor.

PepsiCo
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin filed an action on behalf of PepsiCo, Inc. against a former employee and his new employer, The Quaker Oats Company, seeking emergency and permanent injunctive relief.

Clear Channel Broadcasting Inc.
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin helped Clear Channel’s to protect its trade secrets and to enforce its contract with a departing employee, including non-compete and confidentiality provisions.

Joseph Boden
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Joseph Boden against allegations of breach of a non-competition agreement and misappropriation of trade secrets in the concentrate juice business.

Reliable Media Management
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented the defendants in this case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of restrictive covenants and interference with customer relationships.

K-Tube
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin successfully prosecuted a two-month jury trial of a trade secrets case in San Diego on behalf of our client, K-Tube Corporation.

Caine & Weiner Company
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented defendants in this action filed by their former employer for breach of restrictive covenants and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Palmer & Cay – Breach of non-compete and confidentiality agreements
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin defended Palmer & Cay in this case brought by Aon Risk Services Inc. of Florida alleging breach of non-competition and confidentiality contracts.

Trade Secret Case Successfully Settled
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented a marketing consultant who had recently been hired by a competitor of one of his former clients.

The Quaker Oats Company
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented PepsiCo plaintiffs in two cases involving a dispute with their former ad agency, which had subsequently been retained by a direct competitor in the soft drink industry.

Antec Corporation
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented plaintiff Antec Corporation in this suit against a departing employee for his misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of restrictive covenants.

Executive Wealth Management
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin successfully represented the defendants, defeating the motion for preliminary injunction after the evidentiary hearing.

Merial Ltd.
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Merial Ltd. in this suit against a former employee for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of confidentiality covenant.

Arthur J. Gallagher
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin defended Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in this dispute regarding its hiring of approximately 100 employees formerly employed by a competitor.

Kraft Pizza Company
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin represented Kraft Pizza Company in this case against a former ACNielsen marketing consultant and the competitor that he joined in the frozen pizza business.

Palmer & Cay – Defense of Company and Executive
Trade Secret Litigation
Schiff Hardin defended Palmer & Cay and one of its executives in a lawsuit filed by the executive's former employer.

Keebler
Trade Secret Litigation
Our client, Keebler Corporation, asked us to represent its interests in trade secrets litigation that tested the limits of the inevitable disclosure doctrine we established in PepsiCo v. Redmond.