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Sarah Guske is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation practice group and a member of the Cooley Litigation department. She joined the firm in 2004 and is resident in the Colorado office.
Ms. Guske's practice focuses on patent litigation, with particular emphasis on software and electronics patent litigation cases. She has recently litigated patents involving selective encryption of MPEG multimedia data for broadcast IPTV; encryption and flow control for streaming data; database systems; telephonic interactive voice recognition systems; graphics chipset design and operation; gaming technologies; television color wheels; and digital television technologies. Ms. Guske also has litigation experience involving trademarks, trade dress, and unfair competition.
Ms. Guske is admitted to practice in California and Colorado and is a member of the State Bar of California and the Colorado Bar Association.
Ms. Guske received a J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law. Ms. Guske graduated, summa cum laude, from Washington State University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and also graduated, summa cum laude, from Whitworth College with a B.A. in Physics.
Representative Litigation Cases:
- Interactive Systems Worldwide, Inc. v. Mikohn Gaming Corp. et al. (District of Nevada) – litigation counsel to Mikohn Gaming Corp. and STB Holdings, Inc. in patent litigation related to real-time sports betting technologies.
- Zenith Electronics v. Thomson, Philips Electronics, TTE Technology, Pioneer Electronics (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to Zenith in patent litigation over patents essential for compliance with ATSC Digital Television Standard.
- Bookham, Inc. v. Unaxis Balzers AG et al. (Northern District of California) – litigation counsel to Bookham in patent litigation related to color wheel technology.
- HyperRoll Israel, Ltd. v. Hyperion Solutions (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel to HyperRoll Israel, Ltd. in a patent litigation against Hyperion Solutions. The technology in this case involves 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. The technology in this case involves database-management software.
- Qualcomm Incorporated v. Nokia Corporation (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for Qualcomm in a patent infringement action involving cellular telephony systems and mobile TV applications.
- International Printer Corp. v. Brother International et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for International Printer in a patent infringement action against twelve manufacturers of networkable multi-function printer and imaging technology.
- Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. v. Chevron et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for Katz in a patent infringement action against nine defendants. The technology involves computer telephony and call-center systems.
- Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. v. Consolidated Edison et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for Katz in a patent infringement action against nine defendants. The technology involves computer telephony and call-center systems.
- Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. v. Comcast et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for Katz in a patent infringement action against nine defendants. The technology involves computer telephony and call-center systems.
- Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. v. Fifth Third Bancorp et al. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for Katz in a patent infringement action against nine defendants. The technology involves computer telephony and call-center systems.
- Widevine Technologies, Inc. v. Verimatrix, Inc. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for Verimatrix in a patent infringement action involving encryption technology.
- Widevine Technologies, Inc. v. Verimatrix, Inc. (Western District of Washington) – litigation counsel for Verimatrix in a patent infringement action involving encryption and data stream flow control technology.
- OPTi Inc. v. nVidia Corp. (Eastern District of Texas) – litigation counsel for nVidia in a patent infringement action involving chipset design and operation.
- OMS Investments, Inc., et al. v. TerraCycle, Inc. (District of New Jersey) – litigation counsel for TerraCycle in trade dress infringement and unfair competition action.
Education- University of California, Davis School of Law
JD, 2004 - Washington State University
BS Electrical Engineering, 2001, summa cum laude - Whitworth College
BA Physics, 2001, summa cum laude
Court Admissions
- All California State Courts
- All Colorado State Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
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