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Intellectual Property

Apr. 9, 2014

Erik R. Puknys

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP Palo Alto Patent


Last year, Russia-based software company ABBYY Production Ltd. prevailed in a high-stakes infringement battle with Massachusetts-based Nuance Communications.


"The impact is, most importantly, that foreign defendants in American courtrooms, up against American plaintiffs, have a chance," said Puknys, who served as lead counsel for ABBYY.


Nuance had accused his client of infringing eight patents related to optical character recognition software,...

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