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Orion Armon is a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group and a member of Cooley's Litigation department. He joined the Firm in 2003 and is resident in the Colorado office.
Mr. Armon's practice focuses on patent litigation, with particular emphasis on software and electronics patent litigation cases. He has recently litigated patents involving Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) financial software, optical transceivers, malware detection software, photocopier control systems, database architectures, authentication software, encryption software for streaming television, Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) inverter controllers, and telephonic interactive voice recognition systems.
Mr. Armon has been recognized repeatedly by Colorado SuperLawyers as one of Colorado's Rising Stars in IP litigation. He is also a frequent lecturer on licensing, intellectual property and patent matters, including:
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Armon worked for Accenture as a business consultant from 1997 through 2000, where he specialized in financial system implementations such as SAP and PeopleSoft, and eCommerce applications.
Mr. Armon attended The University of Texas School of Law, where he received his JD with Honors in 2003. Mr. Armon is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Representative Patent Litigation Cases:
- Finjan, Inc. v. Webroot Inc., et al. (District of Delaware) – litigation counsel to Webroot in a patent infringement action involving malware detection software.
- ACQIS v. IBM, et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to ACQIS in a patent infringement action involving blade servers.
- Quest Software, Inc. v. Centrify Corp. (District of Utah and Northern District of California) – litigation counsel to Quest in dual patent infringement actions involving authentication software for large computer networks.
- QinetiQ, Ltd. v. Oclaro, Inc. (N.D. California) – litigation counsel to Oclaro in a patent infringement action involving Mach Zehnder modulators.
- Network Backup Corp. v. AllMyData, Inc., et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Webroot in a patent infringement action involving network storage technology.
- Meteora, LLC. v. Marshal8E6, Inc., et al. (Central District of California) – litigation counsel to Webroot in a patent infringement action involving network filtering of digital communications.
- Widevine Technologies, Inc. v. Verimatrix, Inc. (Eastern District of Texas) – counsel to Verimatrix in a patent infringement action involving software for selectively encrypting streaming MPEG multimedia data for broadcast IPTV.
- IPCO, LLC d/b/a Intus IQ v. Tendril Networks, Inc., et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – counsel to Tendril in a patent infringement action involving wireless mesh networks used in smart energy grids.
- Information Protection and Authentication of Texas, LLC v. Webroot Software, Inc., et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Webroot in a patent infringement action involving malware detection software.
- JDS Uniphase Corp. v. Bookham, Inc. (Northern District of California and International Trade Commission) – litigation counsel to Bookham in a patent infringement action involving semiconductor tunable laser devices used in fiber optic communications.
- International Printer Corp. v. Brother International Corp., et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to International Printer Corp. in a patent infringement action involving remote monitoring and control of printers, copiers, and multifunction printing devices.
- Quest Software, Inc. v. BBS Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Idera (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Quest Software in a patent-infringement action involving database management software.
- Monolithic Power Systems v. O2 Micro International Ltd. (Northern District of California) – litigation counsel to Monolithic Power Systems in a patent infringement action involving Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) inverter controllers.
- O2 Micro International Ltd. v. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Hon Hai in a patent infringement action involving Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) inverter controllers.
- Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing L.P. v. Humana, Inc. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Ronald A. Katz Technology licensing in a patent infringement action involving telephonic interactive voice recognition systems.
- Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing L.P. v. General Electric Corp. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Ronald A. Katz Technology licensing in a patent infringement action involving telephonic interactive voice recognition systems.
- Bookham, Inc. v. Unaxis Balzers AG (Northern District of California) – litigation counsel to Bookham in a declaratory judgment action for non-infringement involving color wheels used in light-projection engines.
- BioZone Laboratories v. River's Edge Pharmaceuticals (Eastern District of Michigan) – litigation counsel to Lipoderm, the patent holder, in a patent infringement action against River's Edge.
- Applied Films GMBH v. Galileo Vacuum Systems (Northern District of Georgia) – litigation counsel to Applied Films in a patent infringement litigation involving thin-film deposition of metallic substances on plastic and paper substrates.
- Galileo Vacuum Systems Italy v. Applied Films GMBH (Court of Milan, Italy) – consultant to Applied Films in a patent nullity proceeding brought by Galileo Vacuum Systems in the Court of Milan.
- Phillips v. AWH Corp. (Federal Circuit Court of Appeals) (en banc) – consultant to Phillips' trial counsel in an appeal to the Federal Circuit involving modular building technologies.
- Quest Software v. Saint Technologies (Canadian Federal Court) – U.S. litigation counsel to Quest Software and consultant for Canadian litigation involving copyright infringement of Quest's database management software.
- HyperRoll Israel, Ltd. v. Hyperion Solutions (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to HyperRoll Israel, Ltd. in a patent infringement litigation involving database management software.
- HyperRoll, Inc. v. Hyperion Solutions (Northern District of California) – litigation counsel to HyperRoll, Inc. in a declaratory judgment action brought by Hyperion Solutions.
- Outlast Technologies v. Frisby Technologies (Colorado District Court) (Federal Circuit Court of Appeals) – litigation counsel to Outlast Technologies in a patent infringement case against Frisby involving phase change materials used to regulate body temperature.
- MKS Industries v. Advanced Energy (Delaware District Court) – litigation counsel to Advanced Energy in a patent infringement litigation involving high-voltage power supplies and gas-disassociation systems.
Representative Copyright and Business Litigation Cases:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. et al., v. Grokster, Ltd., et al. (Supreme Court of the United States) – submitted amicus brief on behalf of emerging technology companies.
- XAware, Inc. v. NxLight, Inc. (Colorado State District Court) – litigation counsel to XAware in a case involving breach of a software license.
- Latis Networks Inc. d/b/a StillSecure v. Datapipe (New Jersey and Colorado State District Courts) – litigation counsel to Latis Networks in a case involving breach of a software license agreement.
- Baltrans Corp. v. Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (American Arbitration Association Proceeding) – counsel to Advanced Energy Industries in an arbitration involving the alleged breach of a global supply chain and logistics contract.
- Newton Family LLC v. Jeeves Company Ltd., et al. (Wyoming and South Carolina District Court) – litigation counsel to Jeeves Company Ltd. in a securities litigation case.
- First Pentecostal Church of Louisville, Colorado v. Bill Walker d/b/a Mortgage Sense, Inc., et al. (Colorado State District Court) – pro bono litigation counsel to First Pentecostal in a case involving the fraudulent misrepresentation of the terms of a mortgage loan.
- Matrix Capital Bank v. Mortgage Cadence, Inc. et al.(American Arbitration Association Proceeding) – counsel to Mortgage Cadence in an arbitration involving the alleged breach of a software license agreement.
- Trafficbuyer.com v. SBBnet, Inc. (American Arbitration Association Proceeding) – counsel to SBBnet in an arbitration involving the breach of a marketing agreement.
- Spatial Corp. v. Ashlar Corp. (Colorado District Court) – litigation counsel to Spatial Corp. in a copyright litigation case involving 3-D geometric modeling software.
- Spatial Corp. v. EI Technology Group LLC (Colorado District Court) – litigation counsel to Spatial Corp. in a copyright litigation case involving 3-D geometric modeling software.
- Skyline Electronics, LLC v. Advanced Digital Information Corp. (Colorado State District Court) – litigation counsel to Skyline Electronics in a case involving a supply agreement for electronics components.
Education- University of Texas School of Law
JD, 2003, With honors - University of Colorado at Boulder
BA Political Science, 1997, summa cum laude
Court Admissions
- All Colorado State Courts
- Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Bar Admissions
- Colorado
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
Memberships
- American Bar Association - Chair, Sub-Committee on CLE and Meetings for Committee 101
- Colorado Bar Association
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