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Nick Gikkas: Lawyer with Haynes and Boone, LLP

Nick Gikkas

Of Counsel
 
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Suite 400, 2033 Gateway Place
San Jose, California  95110
(Santa Clara Co.)

Telephone: 408-660-4163
Fax: 408-660-4263
http://www.haynesboone.com/nick_gikkas/



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Experience & Credentials
 


Practice AreasIntellectual Property; Intellectual Property Litigation
 
EducationUniversity of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D., 1996, Rice University, B.S.E.E., 1982; Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S.E.E., 1984
 
Admitted1996, California
 
BiographyExtensive experience in all aspects of intellectual property with a significant focus on IP litigation, infringement and indemnification issues. Prior to joining Haynes and Boone, worked as in-house corporate counsel for over seven years, holding the positions of Director of IP Litigation for Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. and Chief IP Counsel for SiRF Technology, Inc. Responsible for providing strategic advice and counsel to corporate officers and directors on numerous IP issues, including patent portfolio management and enforcement, licensing of patents and technology, acquisition of third party patents, and multi-defendant patent litigations.
 
ISLN920655908
 
TransactionsRepresented computer disk drive chip maker in a patent litigation; Represented GPS chip manufacturer in a patent litigation; Represented Wi-Fi chip manufacturer in a patent litigation; Represented a major cellular telephone carrier in a patent litigation; Represented cable modem manufacturer in a patent litigation; Represented a silicon wafer manufacturer in a patent litigation; Represented a medical instrument manufacturer in a patent litigation; Represented a disk drive manufacturer in a trade secret misappropriation litigation; Represented clients before U.S. Patent and Trademark office in numerous electrical and mechanical arts, such as wireless, computer hardware and software, global positioning systems, digital signal processing and medical devices; Counseled clients on both in-bound and out-bound technology license agreements and patent license agreements.
 

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Software Licenses: Permission vs. Forgiveness and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Gregory R. Samuel, Randall C. Brown, Mark A. Tidwell, Andrew S. Ehmke, Clark S. Stone, Nick Gikkas, Kenneth K. Bezozo, Arthur A. Howard, Rick A. Werner, Brian C. Daughney, October 5, 2009
In a case that may prove to be as serendipitous for struggling software companies as anything else, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote another chapter in the law of unintended consequences with its ruling in ,Cincom Systems, Inc. v. Novelis Corp. (published September 25,...


 

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