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Susman Godfrey LLP

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets

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Susman Godfrey LLP

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Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets - California

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Susman Godfrey is a litigation boutique with a strong reputation for handling high-stakes intellectual property disputes. The team represents both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation and is particularly experienced in acting for individuals in putative class actions. Its practice encompasses copyright infringement claims, trade secrets misappropriation mandates, breach of contract disputes and other related matters.

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Work Highlights

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  • Susman Godfrey helped secure a $1.5 billion settlement requiring Anthropic to compensate book authors for the use of pirated books in developing its large language models.

Strengths

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  • I am always satisfied with Susman Godfrey's work. They are consummate professionals.

    Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets respondentUSA

  • Susman Godfrey has a deep bench of experienced litigators who can handle sensitive and complex matters. Their strength lies in their hired gun litigator status.

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  • Susman Godfrey has creative and pragmatic litigators with deep expertise and great familiarity with the courts.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Kalpana Srinivasan
    Kalpana Srinivasan

    Kalpana Srinivasan

    Kalpana Srinivasan is the managing partner at Susman Godfrey. In addition to general business and antitrust litigation, she has extensive experience handling trade secrets disputes on behalf of plaintiffs.

    • Kalpana Srinivasan is very strategic and available. She takes my calls all the time.

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    • Having Kalpana involved in our case gives me a great deal of confidence.

      Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets respondentUSA

    • Kalpana Srinivasan is formidable on her feet.

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    • Kalpana is highly effective.

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    Kalpana Srinivasan

    Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation

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