Walter E. Hanley

Walter E. Hanley, Jr.

Mr. Hanley’s practice focuses on patent infringement litigation, but he has broad-based intellectual property litigation experience that includes trade secret, trademark, trade dress and design patent cases.  In 2002, Mr. Hanley won a jury verdict of $47.5 million, the fourth largest jury verdict in an intellectual property case that year, as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Applera Corp. v. Micromass UK Ltd. (D. Del. 2002).

Mr. Hanley has represented clients in cases spanning a variety of complex technologies, including mass spectrometry and other analytical instrument technologies, medical devices, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, and satellite systems.  Mr. Hanley has appeared in federal courts in numerous jurisdictions around the country and has argued several cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Hanley also counsels and assists clients on issues relating to the validity, enforceability and infringement of intellectual property rights, and on the procurement and transfer of intellectual property.  Notable clients Mr. Hanley has represented include Applera Corp. (now Life Technologies), Sony Corp., Airbus SAS, Aesculap AG, Applied Materials, BAE Systems PLC, Boston Scientific Corp., MDS Sciex, and Oscar Mayer Foods Corp.

Mr. Hanley is active in bar association work, especially the New York Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, where is he a member of the Board of Directors and past Chair of the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, the American Bar Association Sections on Litigation and on Intellectual Property, where he has served on committees on Federal Practice and Procedure and Industrial Design.  He is also active in the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.  Mr. Hanley has presented papers and speeches on numerous topics relating to intellectual property litigation, such as the presentation of damages evidence to juries and managing discovery costs in patent litigation.  He has served as an arbitrator in patent disputes. He is a member of Kenyon’s Management Committee.

Representative Cases

Federal Circuit Arguments

TA Instruments, Inc. v. Perkin-Elmer Corp. (2004)

Applera Corp. v. Micromass UK Ltd. (2003)

Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. v. Scimed Life Systems, Inc. (2001)

Oscar Mayer Foods Corp. v. ConAgra, Inc. (1994)

Trials

Infosint S.A. v.H. Lundbeck A/S et al. (S.D.N.Y 2009)

Cordis Corp. v. Boston Scientific Corp. (D. Del. 2005)

Northpoint Technology Ltd. v. MDS America,Inc. (S.D. Fla. 2003)

Applera Corp. v. Micromass UK Ltd. (D. Del. 2002)

Scimed Life Systems, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson (D. Del. 2001)

Cordant Technology, Inc. v. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (D. Del. 1999)

Miles Inc. v. Cookson America, Inc. (Del. Chancery 1994)

Oscar Mayer Foods Corp. v. ConAgra, Inc. (W.D. Wisc. 1993)

Other Recent Cases

Trans Video Electronics LLC v. Sony Corp. et al. (N.D. Cal.)

Odom v. Attachmate Inc. et al. (D. Ore.)

Voice Domain Technologies LLC v. Olympus Corp. et al. (W.D. Okla.)

Agere Systems Inc. v. Sony Corp. et al. (E.D. Tex.)

Richemont N.A. Inc. v. Wing Hon Metal Mfg. Inc. (D.D.C.)

WeddingChannel.com, Inc. v. The Knot, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.)

Thermo Finnigan LLC v. Applera Corp. (D. Del.)

Applera Corp. v. Thermo Electron Corp. (D. Del.)

Medtronic Vascular, Inc. v. Boston Scientific Corp. (D. Del., Fed. Cir.)

Waters Technologies Corp. v. Applera Corp. (D. Del.)

University of Manitoba v. Waters Technologies Corp. (D. Del.)

Aesculap AG & Co. KG v. Walter Lorenz Surgical, Inc. (N.D. Cal.)

Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. v. Scimed Life Systems, Inc. (S.D. Ind.)

Interactive Gift Express, Inc. v. Compuserve Inc. (S.D.N.Y., Fed. Cir.)