The Texas Lawbook profiled an IP litigation victory on behalf of client Impulse Downhole Solutions before a Houston federal jury. The Texas Lawbook notes that the $47.6 million verdict matched Impulse Downhole Solutions’ damages model “to the penny” and highlights how live tool testing and pointed cross-examination overshadowed Downhole Well Solutions’ theoretical damages approach. The Texas Lawbook highlights testimony that Downhole Well Solutions dismissed an early infringement notice as “ridiculous,” a stance that Sheppard used to frame a narrative of willful disregard for patent rights.
“We presented it as a case where we were going to show them that we had tested and could prove [Downhole’s] products infringe,” said John Keville, lead trial counsel for Impulse. “We walked through all the testing, and in their case their expert complained about the testing and relied on the mathematical analysis … When we got to cross-examine them on that analysis, they never showed where [the data] came from.”
Along with Keville, the Sheppard trial team included Michelle Replogle, Robert Green, Michael Krill, Michael Heins, Chante Westmoreland, Usayd Siddiqi and Evan Lim.
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