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Sanity Closes $85 Million Series C

May 8, 2025

Cooley advised Sanity, a content management system that helps build dynamic, content-rich experiences and streamline content workflows, on its $85 Million Series C.

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Kevin Rooney
Partner, San Francisco
John Paul Oleksiuk
Partner, New York
Karen Tsai
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
Ida Mahmoudi
Associate, San Francisco
Alice Wu
Associate, Palo Alto
Jake Ironfield
Transactional Quantitative Analyst, New York
Charles Haley
Partner, Palo Alto
Christopher Kimball
Partner, Washington, DC
Lowell Mead
Partner, Palo Alto
John Sellers
Senior Counsel, Palo Alto
Dillon Martinson
Special Counsel, Washington, DC
David Dalton
Associate, Santa Monica
Amanda Pacheco
Associate, Palo Alto
Allison Pang
Associate, Palo Alto
Shelby Saunders
Associate, New York
Rubin Waranch
Associate, Colorado
David H. Zhou
Associate, Palo Alto
Melanie Yuvienco
Paralegal Specialist, Palo Alto

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Cooley Secures Dismissal of Trade Secret Battle for Mango Technologies

September 17, 2024

Cooley successfully secured a dismissal for Mango Technologies, the market leader in the $80 billion market for productivity software, in a trade secret litigation brought by Nifty Technologies.

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Summer Wynn
Partner, San Diego
Reuben Chen
Partner, Palo Alto
Lowell Mead
Partner, Palo Alto
Hanna Evensen
Associate, Boston
Andy Zachrich
Associate, San Francisco

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Federal Circuit affirms patent cancellation in Facebook’s first-ever patent case

March 3, 2015

When Facebook was first sued for patent infringement over eight years ago, the young company turned to Cooley.

The case was filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by venture capital firm, Cross Atlantic Capital Partners (XACP) just one year after Facebook expanded its site from Harvard University to the general public. XACP claimed that its "online community" patent covered a wide variety of key Facebook features. XACP was seeking royalties, a permanent injunction against Facebook, and attorneys' fees.

Cooley guided the company through seven years of hotly contested litigation across multiple forums. Just a few weeks before trial, Facebook asked the Patent Office to invalidate the patent based on several systems and books that predated the patent, and convinced the district court to stay the case pending the Patent Office's decision.

The Patent Office initially found the claims valid. Facebook appealed to the Board of Patent Appeals (BPAI) and the BPAI judges ruled that the Examiner was wrong, and that the patent claims were invalid. XACP appealed and, in 2014, the Federal Circuit affirmed the invalidity of all claims of the patent.

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Heidi Keefe
Partner, Palo Alto
Mark Weinstein
Partner, Palo Alto
Lowell Mead
Partner, Palo Alto
Liz Stameshkin
Special Counsel, Palo Alto

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Patexia: Top 10 Best Performing 2023 – Patent Litigation

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