Professional Experience
Alex Eaton-Salners is an Associate of Fish & Richardson P.C. in the firm’s Southern California office. He litigates and tries cases in federal district courts throughout the country and represents parties in Section 337 proceedings before the United States International Trade Commission. He was a Summer Associate with the firm (2004).

Prior to joining Fish & Richardson P.C., Mr. Eaton-Salners was a research assistant at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic in Berkeley, California and an advisor at the Saegusa International Patent Office in Osaka, Japan.

Litigation Examples

District Court Actions
Callaway Golf Co. v. Acushnet Co. (D. Del.). (counsel for Callaway Golf in patent litigation concerning golf ball construction; Acushnet conceded infringement; jury found for Callaway Golf on validity of all four patents, damages trial date pending).

Amazon.com, Inc. v. IBM Corp. (E.D. Tex.) (counsel for Amazon.com in patent litigation concerning online commerce and database technology; settled favorably).

Amazon.com, Inc. v. IBM Corp. (E.D. Tex.) (counsel for Amazon.com in patent litigation concerning wrapper and search refinement software; settled favorably).

Data Encryption Corporation v. Microsoft Corp. (C.D. Cal.). (counsel for Microsoft in patent litigation concerning data encryption technology; obtained summary judgment ruling of non-infringement).

AVID Identification Sys., Inc. v. Philips Semiconductors Inc. (E.D. Tex.). (counsel for AVID Identification Systems in patent litigation and Lanham Act claims concerning RFID transponders and readers; favorable mid-trial settlement from two defendants and complete jury victory against the other two defendants, including a finding of willful infringement and a damages award of over $6 million).

Section 337 Proceedings

Micronics Japan Co., Ltd. adv. FormFactor Inc., In re Certain Probe Card Assemblies, Components Thereof and Certain Tested DRAM and NAND Flash Memory Devices and Products Containing Same (337-TA-621) (trial counsel for Micronics Japan Co., Ltd. in patent litigation concerning the design, manufacture, and use of probe card assemblies; trial victory, appeal pending).

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. adv. Renesas Technology Corp., Dynamic Random Access Memory Devices and Products Containing Same (337-TA-595) (trial counsel for Samsung in patent litigation concerning on-die termination and driver circuits for DDR2 SDRAM memory devices and phase-shift masks allegedly used in the fabrication of DDR1 and DDR2 SDRAM memory devices; Staff concurred with non-infringement and invalidity of asserted patents; settled favorably 2 days before the initial determination issued).

Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. adv. Toshiba Corporation, Flash Memory Devices and Components Thereof, and Products (337-TA-552) (trial counsel for Hynix in patent litigation concerning circuit and process-related patents allegedly involving NAND Flash memory devices; settled favorably after trial victory).

Publications
“Global Patent Litigation Strategies for the 21st Century,” AsiaLaw (July/August 2007).

"DVD Copy Control Association v. Bunner: Freedom of Speech and Trade Secrets," 19 Berkeley Tech LJ, 269 (2004).

Bar admissions
Admitted to the bar in California and in the United States District Court for the Central District and the Southern District of California.

Additional information
Fluent in Japanese.