Paul D. Collier

Paul has successfully handled a number of intellectual property and complex litigation matters on behalf of numerous large and small entities covering a broad range of technologies. Paul also has extensive experience counseling intellectual property owners on management of their patent portfolios through active licensing programs and negotiating intellectual property licenses for his clients.

Representative matters in which Paul was actively involved include:

• In re General Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litigation: Represents General Motors in multidistrict federal and state civil litigation relating to vehicle recalls.

• Strautins v. Trustwave (N.D. Ill.); Morgan v. Trustwave (S. Car. Cir. Ct.): Lead counsel for Trustwave in defense of claims emanating from high profile South Carolina Department of Revenue data security breach; resolved after successful dismissal of claims.

• In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico April 20, 2010 (MDL 2179): Trial counsel for BP in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation. In the civil litigation trials, Paul was a courtroom member of the trial team that defended BP from claims by the U.S. Government, certain Gulf States, and various BP contractors.

• Kaminski v. BP (M.D. Fla.): Lead counsel for BP in breach of contract and intellectual property theft suit for alleged use of his idea to contain and stop the Deepwater Horizon spill; dismissed after successful summary judgment ruling shortly before trial. One of numerous intellectual property disputes with similar claims against BP, all of which have been successfully resolved to date.

• In re: BP Lubricants USA, Inc. (N.D. Ill.): Counsel for BP in successful mandamus petition to Federal Circuit resulting in dismissal of Simonian false marking suit for failing to meet pleading standards and setting oft cited precedent that Rule 9(b) requires false marking claims must be plead with sufficient particularity and that conclusory allegations that a defendant should have known the patent expired are insufficient.

• In the Matter of Certain Semiconductor Chips with Minimized Chip Package Size and Products Containing Same (USITC): Trial counsel for Motorola in patent infringement investigation involving semiconductor chip packaging technology; settled shortly after favorable trial ruling.

• In the Matter of Certain Short-Wavelength Light Emitting Diodes, Laser Diodes and Products Containing Same (USITC): Lead counsel for Motorola in patent infringement investigation involving light emitting diode technology; settled shortly before trial.

• Motorola, Inc. v. Digital Technology Licensing, LLC (S.D.N.Y) and Digital Technology Licensing, LLC v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (D.N.J.): Counsel for Motorola and Verizon Wireless in patent infringement litigation involving digital cellular technology; settled shortly before trial.

• Shuffle Master, Inc. v. Gaming Entertainment Inc. (D. Nev.): Counsel for Shuffle Master in a patent infringement matter involving specialty table games, successfully defending against patent infringement claim and prevailing on patent infringement counterclaim on summary judgment.

• Illumina, Inc. v. Affymetrix, Inc. (D. Del.): Trial counsel for Illumina in a six-patent and unfair competition case involving control over the DNA microarray technology market; settled after trial.

• In re United Air Lines, Inc. (Bankr. N.D. Ill.): Lead counsel for United in its chapter 11 proceeding with respect to all disputes involving intellectual property.

• Stratos, Inc. v. Picolight, Inc. et al. (D. Del.): Trial counsel for Honeywell in a patent infringement case involving optoelectronic technology; settled during trial.

• GTFM, Inc. v. The William Carter Co. (S.D.N.Y.): Counsel for The William Carter Co. in successful trademark litigation involving use of mark with certain clothing; settled after favorable summary judgment ruling.

• The William Carter Co. v. H.W. Carter & Sons (Trademark Trial & Appeal Board): Counsel for The William Carter Co. in a series of successful trademark oppositions involving the Carter's trademark.

• Fort James, Inc. v. Solo Cup Co. (E.D. Wis.): Trial counsel for Fort James (Dixie) in a patent infringement case involving consumer product technology; settled after trial.

After graduating with a Mechanical Engineering degree, Paul worked as a design engineer in the automotive industry designing emission control systems (EGR valves) for various GM vehicle platforms.