Representative Litigation

Limpert and Associates Representative Litigation Cases:

• Counsel to successful Plaintiff awarded over $20 million profits in patent litigation.

• Counsel to party given an order to execute an Anton Pillar order against an employee who was alleged to have stolen trade secret information.

• Counsel to a corporation granted interlocutory relief against a former CEO who had taken confidential information and was soliciting the former employer.The former CEO tried to solicit the customers of his former employer.

• Counsel to a Plaintiff in patent litigation which received a seven figure settlement and the Defendants also agreed to cease carrying on business. 

• Counsel to Plaintiffs in copyright litigation who received a variety of remedies, including delivery up of infringing materials, damages.

• Counsel to Plaintiffs who settled a trade secret misappropriation case, receiving a six figure settlement and ten year royalty-bearing license to Defendants.

• Counsel to Defendants in licensing dispute who successfully reduced Plaintiff’s demand by over 98%.

• Advised technology company in dispute with founding shareholder over alleged competitive activities and conflict of interest, resulting in preliminary valuation of shareholder’s shares, and buyout of shares on favourable terms.

• Advised technology company in dispute with shareholders regarding competitive activities in breach of non-competition clauses in shareholders agreement, confidentiality and fiduciary obligations.  Resolution resulted in transfer of shares valued at over $20million to client.

• We acted for Ebbu LLC a leading Cannabis IP development company, in high-value litigation and arbitration. An investor (which was also a licensee and joint venture partner in Ebbu) missed a deadline for making an investment in Ebbu. A dispute arose over whether there was a verbal agreement to extend the deadline and on what terms. We were lead counsel in the litigation, where claims and counterclaims exceeded $100 million. As lead counsel we were responsible for:

• • Overall strategy
  • Settlement negotiations
  • Recruiting and working with expert witnesses (our client used expert witnesses in areas such as intellectual property, business plans, and valuation)

• The matter settled on favourable terms, allowing Ebbu’s acquisition 2 months later by Canopy Growth for CDN$429 million in in November 2018.  We advised on a set of shareholder disputes between founders and early stage investors in a technology company, ultimately resulting in re-acquisition of shares, and consolidation of control by
  our client.

• We advised a client on a series of matters in relation to trademark opposition, cybersquatting, and trademark infringement. The matters all were resolved in favour of our client, allowing them to preserve the value of a recent company re-branding.

• We have advised our client, a Canadian manufacturer, on patent litigation and licensing, including patent infringement claims by a large manufacturer having more than one thousand (1000) patents in its licensing portfolio.