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Cecilia H. Gonzalez
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Cecilia H. Gonzalez
1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004
+1 202.383.6595
+1 202.383.6610 (Fax)
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Co-Chair, Intellectual Property
Cecilia Gonzalez has been a Partner at Howrey since 1986. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee and Board of Advisors and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property practice group. Ms. Gonzalez is also Co-Chair of the Business Affairs Committee and is Managing Partner of Practice Development.
Ms. Gonzalez represents major corporations and high-tech clients in fast-track intellectual property litigation before the US International Trade Commission and in the US District Courts. She specializes in representing clients in international trade matters before the ITC and the Department of Commerce. Ms. Gonzalez has been lead ITC trial counsel in numerous Section 337 actions. She was named one of Washington DC's "Top IP Litigators" by the highly respected Legal Times and one of "The 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America" by The National Law Journal.
In addition, she has been ITC counsel in over 50 patent-based Section 337 cases involving a wide range of technologies including optics, semiconductors, telephone equipment, recombinant gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, computer disc drives and software.
She is the author of a chapter in the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law “Patent Litigations Strategies Handbook,” 2000.
Representative Highlights
- Certain Memory Devices with Increased Capacitance and Products Containing Same. Successfully defended Samsung Electronics Corp. against allegations of patent infringement in an investigation under Section 337. Howrey secured summary determination of invalidity of the patent claims asserted against Samsung prior to the hearing, as well as termination of the investigation as to Samsung. These determinations were upheld upon review by the Commission, and upon appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
- Memory Devices With Increased Capacitance and Products Containing Same. Served as counsel in semiconductor patent litigation at the ITC and in the District Court that was favorably resolved by summary judgment.
- Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, Co. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Successfully defended Samsung against allegations of patent infringement by SEL in connection with patents directed to thin-film transistors. Samsung won a judgment of unenforceability by reason of inequitable conduct in the procurement of the asserted SEL patents following a full evidentiary hearing. The judgment in Samsung's favor was affirmed upon appeal by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Admissions
- District of Columbia, 1980
Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States International Trade Commission
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Court of International Trade
- Office of the United States Trade Representative
- United States Department of Commerce
- United States Customs Service
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center (JD, 1979)
- McGill University (BA, 1976)
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