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Intellectual Property

Apr. 17, 2013

Robert L. Kovelman

Steptoe & Johnson LLP Los Angeles Patent


On behalf of longtime client Bally Technologies Inc., Kovelman was able to fend off a party who was demanding a seven-figure licensing fee for one of its patents.


"The party was a small gaming company that was able to buy this patent from an inventor, then tried to assert it," Kovelman said. "We wouldn't pay them what they wanted."


The reexamination against some of Bally's most popular gaming systems involved a total of 112 c...

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