Winning this April's Highmark ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court might have been enough to earn Reed Smith LLP's Cynthia E. Kernick a spot among Law360's Influential Women In IP Law, but the ruling at the high court was only the latest success for the intellectual property litigator.
Kernick, a partner at Reed Smith's Pittsburgh home base, represented Highmark Inc. through more than a decade of contentious patent litigation with Allcare Health Management Systems Inc., which claimed the Steel City-based health insurer was infringing a patented system for integrated health care management.
Eventually, the district court ordered Allcare β which it described as a "patent troll" β to pay nearly $5 million in sanctions for bringing "meritless allegations" and for "deceitful conduct" during the longrunning case litigation.
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