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Intellectual Property

Nov. 7, 2014

Federal Circuit disciplines prominent Silicon Valley patent litigator

Edward R. Reines, a Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP partner, was publicly reprimanded Wednesday by a federal appellate court for improperly distributing a laudatory email written by the circuit's former chief judge to clients.


By Kevin Lee


Daily Journal Staff Writer


PALO ALTO - A prominent Silicon Valley patent litigator was publicly reprimanded Wednesday by a federal appellate court for improperly distributing to clients a laudatory email written by the circuit's former chief judge.


The written order disciplining Edward R. Reines, a litigator at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, is the latest twist in an extraordinary saga that prompted Randall R. Rader, the chie...

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