Orrick

Firm overview:

Patent litigators at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe advise leading innovators in high-stakes disputes. The firm handles cases in the major patent arenas, from the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California to the International Trade Commission (ITC).

Orrick’s patent trial and appellate lawyers work with clients’ in-house teams and draw on backgrounds in science and engineering to advise on the technologies in dispute. Outside the courtroom the firm advises clients on IP counselling and licensing, with the aim of avoiding future disputes. Highlights for the team include successfully representing EMC and VMware in a ten-patent case brought by Clouding, and resolving a case in favour of L’Oréal that involved claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation.

Team overview:

Silicon Valley partner Jared Bobrow litigates patent disputes across the US. A previous co-chair of the firm’s global IP practice, he teaches patent litigation at UC Berkeley Law School and has spoken and written on patent law, as well as trade secrets-related matters.

Tom Chen, a senior patent litigator specialising in life sciences, has experience in large and small molecule therapeutics. Since joining Orrick from the ITC, he has led high-stakes patent trials and appeals in forums including the Northern District of California, Eastern District of Texas, and ITC. Chen guides clients on patent strategy, risk mitigation, and licensing while coordinating with in-house counsel.

IP litigation partner, Raghav Krishnapriyan, based in San Francisco, focuses on technology and life sciences patent disputes, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI), biotech, and software innovations. Since joining from Morrison Foerster in 2023, he has handled multi-jurisdictional cases, balancing courtroom advocacy with strategic client counseling.

Lead appellate and IP partner Josh Rosenkranz has been central to some of Orrick’s major 2025 victories, including Sonos’s successful Federal Circuit appeal against Google. His practice spans patent litigation, post-grant proceedings, and complex appellate strategy across life sciences and technology sectors. Beyond courtroom success, he mentors younger litigators and contributes to Orrick’s AI Law Center, advising clients on emerging IP and regulatory issues connected to new technologies.

Danielle Tully, Mike Powell, and Josh Glucoft joined Orrick’s IP litigation team as partners in January 2026, following the addition of former USPTO Solicitor Farheena Rasheed. Tully and Powell, a long-time litigation duo with biology backgrounds, bring extensive first-chair experience in high-stakes patent, trade secret, and commercial cases in tech and life sciences, while Glucoft adds expertise in electrical engineering, computer science, and medical device patent litigation.

Key matters:

• Sonos v Google (Federal Circuit, 2025)

An Orrick appellate team led by Josh Rosenkranz and Libby Moulton secured reversal of a lower court’s invalidation of a $32.5 million patent verdict, preserving key patent rights for Sonos’s smart speaker technology.

• All Terminal Services v Roboflow

Raghav Krishnapriyan and team represented Roboflow in a patent dispute concerning data/AI technologies.

• Rex Medical v Intuitive Surgical

Orrick defended Intuitive Surgical on appeal in this surgical stapler patent case; the Federal Circuit affirmed a reduction of a $10 million jury award to nominal damages due to failure of the plaintiff’s expert to support a reasonable royalty, demonstrating Orrick’s role in complex medical device patent disputes involving damages methodology.

Clients:

Intuitive Surgical, Roboflow, Sonos