Over the course of more than a decade, Irell represented TiVo in its battles against some of the largest media companies, securing victories across multiple district courts, the International Trade Commission and the Federal Circuit, including three trials, numerous trips to the federal circuit and settlements. TiVo collected more than $1.7 billion in damages and settlements from companies like EchoStar, Motorola, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon. Irell represented City of Hope in a patent licensing dispute with Genentech related to the world’s first biotechnology drug. City of Hope subsequently named its graduate school the Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences. In 2020, Irell & Manella represented Labrador Diagnostics (a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group, itself owned by the firm
SoftBank) in an infringement lawsuit against bioFire (a subsidiary of
BioMérieux), claiming the firm infringed patents purchased from the disgraced company
Theranos. This legal action attracted heavy criticism due both to the origin of the patents, as well as bioFire responding by saying they were working on COVID-19 tests during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Irell achieved a series of significant victories for
USAA—a member-owned association that provides financial services to military service members, veterans and their families— in protecting its patented mobile check deposit innovations. In the span of two months in late 2019 and early 2020, these victories included a jury verdict against Wells Fargo of willful infringement and $200 million in damages on one set of patents, and a second jury verdict against Wells Fargo of willful infringement and $102 million in damages on a second set of patents. More recently, Irell represented USAA in a patent infringement suit against Truist Bank asserting infringement of five of USAA’s mobile deposit patents, which settled favorably in October 2023. == See also ==