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"Simply the best at addressing threats through practical business landscapes, analysis and strategies.” - IAM Patent 1000.

Shane's holistic approach views each engagement in the context of his client's business as a whole. Shane works closely with his client to first assess the risk or value associated with a particular matter and then to develop a strategy for aggressively defending or pursuing his client's rights while never losing sight of the larger context of the client's overarching business interests and goals. Shane has proven particularly adept at identifying and exploiting the other side’s weaknesses early in the case to position his clients for victory through early dispositive motions or favorable settlements.

Shane has served as lead counsel for companies such as F5, Fitbit, Mandiant, Nikon, Hitachi, Conviva, and Kodiak Robotics in patent, trade secret, employee mobility and a wide range of commercial matters.  

Shane also works with early-stage companies to identify, secure and protect trade secret, patent, copyright and trademark assets, including serving as a mentor attorney at Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley with a focus on PNP's supply chain start-up companies.  

Shane devotes significant time to pro bono education rights litigation. He is currently lead counsel for a class of students with reading disabilities, including dyslexia, in a class action lawsuit against the Berkeley Unified School District. After four years of litigation, the parties reached a court-brokered settlement agreement, including a Literacy Improvement Plan effecting a complete overhaul of BUSD's processes and programs for identifying, teaching and supporting children with reading disabilities. Shane's team, along with universally recognized reading experts, continue to monitor the district's compliance with the Plan, which is to be fully implemented on a three year schedule. This case has been cited by children's advocates in other school districts seeking similar remedies.

Shane also represented a class of English-learning students in California challenging, and obtaining an injunction prohibiting California's implementation of, the California High School Exit Examination.  

Shane sits on the Board for the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles.

Shane also served as in-house counsel to two public technology companies, and prior to his legal career was a manufacturing consultant with a focus on semiconductor processing and international supply chains.

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Credentials

J.D., University of California Hastings College of Law

B.S., University of Arkansas

California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Board member, Western Center on Law & Poverty

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Educational Foundation of Orinda and Arkansas Alumni Association

Member, International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association

Member, San Francisco Bar Association

Cited by client as " simply the best at addressing threats through practical business landscape analysis and strategies"


IAM Patent 1000

Listed, The World's Leading Patent Professionals


IAM Patent 1000, 2017

Recipient, Counsel to Counsel honor


The National Law Journal

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Recognition

Cited by client as " simply the best at addressing threats through practical business landscape analysis and strategies"


IAM Patent 1000

Listed, The World's Leading Patent Professionals


IAM Patent 1000, 2017

Recipient, Counsel to Counsel honor


The National Law Journal

Matters

Defended six Russian nationals and former employees of Russian search engine Rambler against fraud and breach of contract claims brought in a California federal court. The court dismissed the claims for failing to meet the applicable statutes of limitations.

Defended a cybersecurity company against a competitor’s claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation brought by a multinational corporation in federal courts in Delaware and California. Disposed of the trade secret claims through a motion for a protective order after a year of litigation and obtained favorable claim constructions leading to the voluntary dismissal of the patent claims.

Defended early-stage company in a bet-the-company patent litigation suit brought by larger competitor in federal district court in San Francisco, California. After a year of litigation, the court found the asserted patents to be directed at ineligible subject matter and dismissed the case.

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Defended six Russian nationals and former employees of Russian search engine Rambler against fraud and breach of contract claims brought in a California federal court. The court dismissed the claims for failing to meet the applicable statutes of limitations.

Defended a cybersecurity company against a competitor’s claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation brought by a multinational corporation in federal courts in Delaware and California. Disposed of the trade secret claims through a motion for a protective order after a year of litigation and obtained favorable claim constructions leading to the voluntary dismissal of the patent claims.

Defended early-stage company in a bet-the-company patent litigation suit brought by larger competitor in federal district court in San Francisco, California. After a year of litigation, the court found the asserted patents to be directed at ineligible subject matter and dismissed the case.

Defended networking and cybersecurity security company against a $40M breach-of-contract claim. Following the deposition of the plaintiff's in-house counsel on the last day of discovery, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed its claims.

Hired by a Japanese multinational corporation following its loss in a competitor patent suit in the International Trade Commission. In the companion case in district court in San Francisco, California, obtained new claim constructions and negotiated a favorable settlement for the client, including patent cross-licenses and a nine-figure payment to client.

Represented a Japanese manufacturer of consumer products asserting its pioneering plasma display patent against a competitor in federal district court in Texas. Obtained a nine-figure settlement payment one week before trial.

Represented an imaging technology company enforcing its groundbreaking digital camera patents against larger competitor in both the ITC and in federal district court in California. Following the trial and a finding of infringement by the ITC, the cases settled for a high nine-figure payment to the client.

Defended a wireless network company against a patent infringement action before the ITC and in federal district court in Oakland, California. The complainant withdrew its ITC complaint just weeks before trial. Won a summary judgment of non-infringement in the district court action.

Represented a producer of audio products asserting claims of design patent and trade dress infringement against a Japanese multinational corporation in Los Angeles federal court. The case settled during arbitration with the immediate withdrawal of the infringing products from the market and assignment of design patents covering the infringing products to the client.

Matters

Defended six Russian nationals and former employees of Russian search engine Rambler against fraud and breach of contract claims brought in a California federal court. The court dismissed the claims for failing to meet the applicable statutes of limitations.

Defended a cybersecurity company against a competitor’s claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation brought by a multinational corporation in federal courts in Delaware and California. Disposed of the trade secret claims through a motion for a protective order after a year of litigation and obtained favorable claim constructions leading to the voluntary dismissal of the patent claims.

Defended early-stage company in a bet-the-company patent litigation suit brought by larger competitor in federal district court in San Francisco, California. After a year of litigation, the court found the asserted patents to be directed at ineligible subject matter and dismissed the case.

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Matters

Defended six Russian nationals and former employees of Russian search engine Rambler against fraud and breach of contract claims brought in a California federal court. The court dismissed the claims for failing to meet the applicable statutes of limitations.

Defended a cybersecurity company against a competitor’s claims of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation brought by a multinational corporation in federal courts in Delaware and California. Disposed of the trade secret claims through a motion for a protective order after a year of litigation and obtained favorable claim constructions leading to the voluntary dismissal of the patent claims.

Defended early-stage company in a bet-the-company patent litigation suit brought by larger competitor in federal district court in San Francisco, California. After a year of litigation, the court found the asserted patents to be directed at ineligible subject matter and dismissed the case.

Defended networking and cybersecurity security company against a $40M breach-of-contract claim. Following the deposition of the plaintiff's in-house counsel on the last day of discovery, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed its claims.

Hired by a Japanese multinational corporation following its loss in a competitor patent suit in the International Trade Commission. In the companion case in district court in San Francisco, California, obtained new claim constructions and negotiated a favorable settlement for the client, including patent cross-licenses and a nine-figure payment to client.

Represented a Japanese manufacturer of consumer products asserting its pioneering plasma display patent against a competitor in federal district court in Texas. Obtained a nine-figure settlement payment one week before trial.

Represented an imaging technology company enforcing its groundbreaking digital camera patents against larger competitor in both the ITC and in federal district court in California. Following the trial and a finding of infringement by the ITC, the cases settled for a high nine-figure payment to the client.

Defended a wireless network company against a patent infringement action before the ITC and in federal district court in Oakland, California. The complainant withdrew its ITC complaint just weeks before trial. Won a summary judgment of non-infringement in the district court action.

Represented a producer of audio products asserting claims of design patent and trade dress infringement against a Japanese multinational corporation in Los Angeles federal court. The case settled during arbitration with the immediate withdrawal of the infringing products from the market and assignment of design patents covering the infringing products to the client.

Credentials

J.D., University of California Hastings College of Law

B.S., University of Arkansas

California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Board member, Western Center on Law & Poverty

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Educational Foundation of Orinda and Arkansas Alumni Association

Member, International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association

Member, San Francisco Bar Association

Cited by client as " simply the best at addressing threats through practical business landscape analysis and strategies"


IAM Patent 1000

Listed, The World's Leading Patent Professionals


IAM Patent 1000, 2017

Recipient, Counsel to Counsel honor


The National Law Journal

Close

Recognition

Cited by client as " simply the best at addressing threats through practical business landscape analysis and strategies"


IAM Patent 1000

Listed, The World's Leading Patent Professionals


IAM Patent 1000, 2017

Recipient, Counsel to Counsel honor


The National Law Journal