Alan Kellman’s practice focuses on patent infringement, licensing, antitrust, and related litigation in the federal courts and in arbitration. He has represented and counseled clients in disputes relating to pharmaceutical products, network switching equipment, telecommunications equipment, local and wide area networks, digital signal processing systems, digital audio and video coding systems, cellular telephony, personal computers, digital watermarking, semiconductor processing technology, microprocessor design and development, electro-chemical lighting systems, and remote surgical robotics.Before joining Desmarais LLP, Mr. Kellman was a partner in the Intellectual Property group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Mr. Kellman has received recognition for his work in articles such as “This Verdict Made Jaws Drop,” The National Law Journal, Feb. 18, 2008, and “Company Loses $271 Million Claim Over Wireless Patents,“ The National Law Journal, Dec. 17, 2001.
- Represented GlaxoSmithKline against Apotex, Inc. in patent infringement and antitrust litigation involving the prescription antidepressant Paxil.
- Represented IBM against Fifth Generation Computer Corp. in patent infringement litigation involving supercomputing and parallel processing technology.
- Represented Alcatel-Lucent against Dell Computer in patent infringement litigation involving web-based systems.
- Represented Alcatel-Lucent against Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc., and Gateway, Inc. in a multi-patent litigation involving perceptual audio coding, digital video compression, user interface, and communications protocol technologies.
- Represented Agere Systems, Inc. against Atmel Corp. in a multi-patent litigation involving semiconductor process technology and digital signal processing.
- Represented Osram Sylvania, Inc. against Durel Corp. in patent infringement litigation involving electroluminescent phosphors.
- Represented Lucent Technologies against Tatung in arbitration and district court proceedings concerning patent licensing.
- Represented Verizon Wireless against MLMC, Ltd. in a patent infringement litigation involving cellular telephone technology.