Appellate Representations

Ms. Morrow was lead counsel for Hewlett-Packard in Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Acceleron LLC, 587 F.3d 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2009), which set a new standard for when a declaratory judgment action may be brought against a patent holder.

Software Representations

Ms. Morrow has handled software patent cases involving a wide range of software techniques, including user interfaces, voice recognition interfaces, 2-D and 3-D graphics, digital rights management, Internet technologies, and other communications and networking technologies.  She has also handled software copyright, trade secret, and contract disputes.

Ms. Morrow was lead trial counsel substituted in to defend Macromedia in a seven patent, two jurisdiction dispute between Adobe, Inc. and Macromedia.  After back-to-back jury trials that resulted in a net damage award in favor of Macromedia, and while Macromedia's request for an injunction against Adobe Illustrator was pending, a resolution was reached.

Ms. Morrow was appellate counsel substituted in to handle an appeal for Apple of an adverse summary judgment ruling; the resulting reversal is reported at Apple Computer, Inc. v. Articulate Sys. Inc., 234 F.3d 14 (Fed. Cir. 2000).

Semiconductor Representations

Ms. Morrow has handled patent, trade secret and breach of contract cases involving semiconductor equipment, semiconductor process technologies, device design, integrated circuit design, and packaging.

Ms. Morrow substituted in to defend O2Micro, Inc. in a patent and trade secret dispute with Monolithic Power Systems, and was instrumental in obtaining a defense jury verdict that the patents asserted against O2Micro were both invalid and non-infringed.  O2Micro also obtained a jury verdict of $ 12 million on its trade secrets counterclaim. Both jury verdicts were affirmed on appeal in 2007.

Ms. Morrow was asked to defend start-up Scenix Semiconductor in a six patent case brought against it by Microchip Technologies.  She obtained the withdrawal of four of the six patents, and defeated a preliminary injunction motion on the remaining two.  The district court's claim construction and preliminary injunction decisions were affirmed on appeal, and the matter settled thereafter. MicrochipTechnology, Inc. v. Scenix Semiconductor, Inc., 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 14131 (2002).  
 
In connection with her defense of client Information Storage Devices, who was sued by Atmel Corporation shortly before it went public, Ms. Morrow conducted the first Markman (patent claim construction) hearing held in the Northern District of California.  She went on to obtain summary judgment of noninfringement of two of three patents, sanctions, and summary judgment of invalidity of the third patent on an issue of first impression.  The latter ruling was reversed in part on appeal in Atmel Corp. v. Information Storage Devices, Inc., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17564 (Fed. Cir. 1999).  The matter settled favorably following remand and renewal of ISD's motions.

Medical Device Representations

Ms. Morrow has handled patent, trade secret and breach of warranty cases involving a variety of endoscopic and implantable technologies.

In 2007, Ms. Morrow was lead trial counsel for The Regents of the University of California in a bench trial on the original patent portfolio covering the Guglielmi detachable coils, used primarily in treating brain aneurysms.  The matter settled on the first day of trial, in a manner very favorable to The Regents, after a series of favorable rulings on the defenses raised by defendant ev3.