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Natalie Hanlon-Leh leads Faegre & Benson's Colorado intellectual property practice, and focuses her practice on intellectual property protection and litigation.
Natalie is one of the firm's senior trial lawyers and had served as lead counsel in a broad range of complex patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets cases. Her litigation practice involves a wide range of technologies including chemistry assays, genetic research methods, software, storage area networks, tunable lasers and erbium doped fiber amplifiers. Natalie has substantial expertise with injunctions and expedited proceedings. Since 2004, Natalie has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, where she teaches patent litigation. Representative cases include:
- LabCorp v. Metabolite Laboratories – Obtaining a complete dismissal of a $20 million licensing claim against LabCorp, after taking over as lead counsel in post-Supreme Court litigation against Metabolite Laboratories.
- Stanford University v. Tyco Int'l et al. – Serving as lead counsel for defendant JDS Uniphase in connection with patent infringement action in the Central District of California.
- Real News Project v. Independent World Television – Serving as lead counsel for the defense in a bench trial in the Southern District of New York, in which the court found the plaintiff had no protectable mark and no likelihood of confusion, resulting in favorable judgment on all counts.
- Jibbitz v. Joinworld, et. al. – Representing plaintiff copyright holder in successfully obtaining seizure order, permanent injunction and $56 million judgment for multiple acts of copyright and trademark infringement arising out of sale of counterfeit footwear accessories.
- Adept v. Zoll Data Systems – Successfully defended Zoll Data Systems in a jury trial on damages in which the demand exceeded $70 million, but the award was less than $600,000.
- Genetic Technology v. Applera – Serving as lead litigation counsel in two patent infringement cases involving methods for intron-sequence analysis DNA and genomic mapping, including obtaining a favorable claim construction ruling on all 15 disputed claim terms which drove a favorable settlement.
- Merilab v. Perceptronn – Serving as lead counsel as a declaratory judgment plaintiff in a case involving noncontact wheel alignment systems.
- McData v. Brocade Communications Systems – Serving as lead counsel for McDATA in a patent infringement case that involves performance monitoring for fibre channel switches used in storage area networks (including a preliminary injunction hearing).
- Trimont Land Company v. Evans – Obtaining consent judgment for ski area stopping the use of an infringing domain name.
- USA Hockey v. Does – Obtaining a seizure order on behalf of USA Hockey, authorizing seizure of counterfeit merchandise at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
- Colorado Rockies v. Robert Lewis – Enforcing trademark rights and successfully obtaining a preliminary injunction for a major league baseball team enjoining improper use of a similar domain name.
- USOC v. American Media – Defending a media defendant sued by the U.S. Olympic Committee over use of "Olympics" as part of a magazine title.
- Huntsman v. Soderburgh – Serving as Colorado counsel for major motion picture studios in copyright litigation over unauthorized digitally edited versions of movies.
- Religious Technology Corporation v. F.A.C.T. Net – Successfully defeating a preliminary injunction motion and obtaining summary judgment dismissing trade secrets claims against board members of a non-profit library and archive who were sued in Colorado and Virginia by the Church of Scientology for copyright and trade secrets violations based upon posting of church materials to the Internet.
Accolades
Faegre & Benson has been consistently recognized by independent third-party sources for its depth of expertise and excellence in client service, technology, culture and public service. We have been ranked among the leading U.S. law firms in serving the needs of multinational clients. Our recent recognition includes the following:
Legal Expertise and Quality of Service
- More than 100 attorneys from Faegre & Benson are listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2010)
- Recognized as a Go-To Law Firm® for corporate transactions, intellectual property, international, labor and employment, litigation and securities by Fortune 500® general counsel surveyed by Corporate Counsel magazine (2009)
- Ranked among the top 20 law firms in the United States for client service by The BTI Consulting Group (2009)
- Ranked top corporate law firm in Minneapolis among general counsel surveyed by Corporate Board Member magazine (2009)
- Recognized as a client relationship leader by Fortune 1000® corporate counsel surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group (2009)
- Ranked by the Legal 500 directory among the top U.S. law firms for First Amendment litigation and counseling, capital markets: equity offerings, construction, domestic tax, and national M&A: middle-market (2009)
- Ranked among the top law firms in Minnesota, Colorado, Iowa and the United Kingdom by Chambers and Partners. Our data security, franchising and Native law practices received nationwide rankings in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Our Minnesota office ranked in the top tier for construction, corporate/M&A, labor and employment, litigation and real estate, while our Colorado offices ranked in the top tier in the corporate/M&A, environment, intellectual property and real estate: construction categories. Our UK office was ranked one of the top corporate finance: AIM practices in the 2008 Chambers UK directory.
- Recognized as a Go-To Law Firm® for financial services companies by general counsel of leading financial services firms surveyed by Corporate Counsel magazine (2007 and 2008)
- Listed as a recommended firm for tax matters in the Tax Directors Handbook (2008)
- Ranked first by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal in its Top 25 list of metro-area intellectual property law firms based on number of IP attorneys (2008)
- Ranked by IP Law & Business magazine among the top 15 U.S. law firms protecting intellectual property for the world's 50 most innovative companies (2007 and 2008)
- Ranked by the Legal 500 directory (United Kingdom) among the top corporate and M&A practices in London (2005–2007)
- Ranked among the top 100 U.S. law firms for mergers and acquisitions by The BTI Consulting Group (2007)
- Ranked among the top corporate law firms in Minneapolis and Denver by Corporate Board Member magazine (2007)
- Recognized as a Bet-the-Company Firm by Fortune 1000® corporate counsel surveyed by The BTI Consulting Group (2007)
- Ranked by Law360 as one of the top 10 U.S. law firms for product liability defense litigation (2007)
- Listed as preferred counsel by Fortune 250® general counsel surveyed by Corporate Counsel magazine (2003–2006)
- One of the "best privacy consultancies" internationally in a survey published by ComputerWorld magazine (2006 and 2007)
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