Top 20 Defense Results: Nuance Communications Inc. v. ABBYY Software House Inc.

In its roundup of the top verdicts for 2013, the Daily Journal featured Finnegan’s defense victory on behalf of ABBYY. “When Russia-based ABBYY hired new outside counsel in 2011 to fend off patent infringement claims brought by Massachusetts-based Nuance Communications Inc., the litigation between the two companies had already entered its fourth year. Two years later, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP secured a comprehensive defense victory for ABBYY and Lexmark International Inc., a Kentucky-based printer manufacturer and ABBYY customer.” The Finnegan team was led by partner Erik R. Puknys, who spoke with the Daily Journal about the firm’s relationship with ABBYY. Around the same time Finnegan stepped in, the client had hired a new director of litigation, Peter Kirk. “He understood the technology really well, got us meetings with the engineers and up to speed on the technology really quickly,” said Puknys.