Davis Polk’s patent infringement victory on behalf of VNUS Medical Technologies has been named a “Top Plaintiffs’ Verdict” of 2010 by the Daily Journal. On December 8, 2010, after five weeks of trial and four days of deliberation, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California returned a patent infringement verdict in favor of our client VNUS and against two of VNUS's competitors in the market for a non-surgical procedure performed to eliminate varicose veins. The jury awarded compensatory damages in the amount of $45.8 million. Davis Polk partner Matthew Lehr, lead lawyer on the case, was featured in a profile of the case in the Daily Journal’s “Top Verdicts” supplement.