Davis Polk's Intellectual Property Group regularly addresses the IP issues that matter most to our clients. We do so with sensitivity to our clients' objectives and with a sophisticated understanding of the contexts in which these issues may arise, whether among rivals in the marketplace, during a fast-paced transaction or before a jury in a courtroom.

Our IP lawyers can call on industry experience and scientific training to counsel clients regarding IP strategy, analyze and evaluate patent claims, execute IP-focused transactions, and address the range of IP issues that arise in our client's most important and complex business deals.

Our litigators combine high-level trial skills with deep experience in patent law and other areas of intellectual property.

• Two Davis Polk lawyers are recognized as “National Litigation Stars” for Intellectual Property – Benchmark Litigation 2012
  
  
  
• Ranked nationally among U.S. law firms – Legal 500 U.S.: Davis Polk’s “[v]ery talented [IP] trial attorneys bring the highest quality and best representation one can obtain to the table.”
  
  
  
• “There are few cases that I can just put on autopilot and be confident that they’re going to be handled appropriately, but I can do that with [Davis Polk's IP partners].” – Benchmark Litigation 2012

• We are representing Comcast Corporation in the corporate, intellectual property and antitrust aspects of its agreement with General Electric to form the NBCUniversal joint venture.
  
  
• We are advising ARM Holdings on its leading participation in a consortium of major technology companies affiliated with Allied Security Trust to obtain rights to MIPS Technologies’ patent portfolio, which includes 580 patents covering microprocessor design, system-on-chip design and other related technology fields.
  
  
• We represented Cosan S.A. Indústria e Comércio in its $12 billion joint venture with Shell International Petroleum Company Limited in Brazil for the production of ethanol, sugar and power, and the supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels.
  
  
• We advised Symantec Corporation on its acquisition of the authentication and identity security business of VeriSign Inc. for $1.28 billion in cash by way of an asset purchase agreement. The acquisition includes the licensing of the VeriSign trademark and domain name to Symantec.
  
  
• We regularly advise Comcast on various copyright matters with respect to the deployment of new content and distribution technologies.
  
  
• We regularly advise Golf Channel, NBC Sports Network, Comcast SportsNet, G4 and E!, among others, in connection with various programming and content distribution matters.
  
  
• We advised Comcast Corporation on its minority investment in Houston Regional Sports Network, L.P. and its general partner, including the negotiating of media rights license agreements, on behalf of the network, with the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets.
  
  
• We advised Warner Chilcott with LEO Pharma’s re-acquiring of Warner Chilcott’s exclusive product licensing rights in the U.S. to its topical psoriasis treatments, as well as rights to all products in LEO Pharma’s development pipeline, and acquiring all inventories of the products for a one-time cash payment of $1 billion.

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