Professional Profile
John Spaccarotella's practice focuses on patent infringement litigation in Federal Courts and the International Trade Commission. Mr. Spaccarotella has represented clients in cases involving computer memory, digital image sensors, liquid crystal displays, cellular phones, fiber optics, semiconductor and circuit design, cable television, data encryption, and financial and payment card systems.
Before attending law school, Mr. Spaccarotella was an electrical engineer at Ford Motor Company and a product manager at Siemens Automotive. Mr. Spaccarotella was also an associate in the intellectual property litigation departments of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
Representative Matters
- Represented Cablevision against Verizon in an International Trade Commission patent infringement investigation involving cable television set-top boxes and related software.
- Represented American Express against PrivaCash in a patent infringement action involving prepaid card products.
- Represented American Express against SpendingMoney in a patent infringement action involving prepaid card products.
- Represented American Express against Every Penny Counts in a patent infringement action involving prepaid card products.
- Represented Samsung against On Semiconductor in a patent infringement action involving semiconductor circuit designs and products.
- Represented Sony against Apeldyn in a patent infringement action involving liquid crystal display technology.
- Represented Xerox against Sharp in a patent infringement action involving photo copying equipment.
- Represented Micron against Mosaid in a patent infringement involving semiconductor products.
- Represented Samsung against Ericsson in an International Trade Commission patent infringement investigation involving cell phone technologies.
- Represented Lucent against Litton in a patent infringement action involving fiber optical systems.
- Represented Samsung in an International Trade Commission patent infringement investigation involving cellular telephone technologies.
Publications
- John C. Spaccarotella, "Patents Continue To Gain Visibility, Value In The Lucrative Derivatives, Hedge Fund, And Allied Financial Services Market," Futures & Derivatives Law Report, Oct. 2005.
- Robert Scheinfeld & John C. Spaccarotella, "Federal Circuit's Knorr-Bremse Decision Marks Significant Changes In Willful Infringement Law, But Patent Opinions Of Counsel May Remain As Important As Ever," Baker Botts IP Report, Sep. 2004 (also appeared in the September 22, 2004 edition of the New York Law Journal).
- Edward J. Williams & John C. Spaccarotella. "Quantitative Process Layout Design Supported by Discrete Simulation," Industrial Engineering Research '98 Conference Proceedings, May 1998.
- John C. Spaccarotella, "Lean Manufacturing Design Through Simulation Analysis," Southern Automotive Manufacturing Conference & Exposition, August 1998.
Courts
- United States Court Of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey