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Robert
B.
Hawk
Partner, Silicon Valley
robert.hawk@hoganlovells.com
Robert Hawk's practice focuses on commercial, antitrust, and intellectual property litigation. He has extensive experience in consumer class actions and California Unfair Competition claims, licensing, contract, trade secrets, and copyright disputes, trademark infringement, and counterfeiting cases, and corporate governance disputes. He has tried cases in federal and state courts and before private arbitrators and has substantial experience in mediation. Robert has successfully litigated cases involving many different sectors of high-technology industry, including software companies, semiconductor manufacturers, entertainment firms, networking companies and Internet service providers, as well as food, beverage, and nutritional supplement companies, pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers, banks, accounting firms, and real estate developers.
Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Robert was an attorney at the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP. He also served as a law clerk to The Honorable Irving L. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Represented Symantec Corporation, ConAgra Foods, Alexia Foods, Hughes Network Systems, The Columbia House Company, 3Com Corporation, Smith & Hawken, and State Farm Insurance Companies in consumer class actions and unfair competition litigation.
- Represented Kohler Co., Atari Games Corporation, and a multinational computer technology corporation in antitrust litigation.*
- Represented Facebook, Inc. founders, a major accounting firm, The Hays Company, TIBCO Software, Inc., and others in trade secrets and related business tort claims.*
- Represented major accounting firm in breach of contract and accountant liability litigation arising out of the Cendant Securities fraud proceeding.*
- Represented Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch in contract breach and corporate acquisition litigation against NBCi.*
- Represented Shaklee Corporation in unfair competition and advertising litigation.*
- Represented Hitachi Data Systems Corporation in contract breach arbitration against Electronic Data Systems.*
- Represented Computer Associates in copyright infringement and license breach litigation.*
- Represented E. Merck and EM Industries in contract and unfair competition litigation involving a corporate acquisition.*
- Represented RSA Data Security, Inc. in patent infringement and Lanham Act litigation.*
- Represented venture capital firms and venture-financed companies and their founders in disputes relating to corporate governance, acquisition agreements, stock and stock option rights and employment issues.*
- Represented Philip Morris USA, Hunting World, Incorporated and Alfred Dunhill Limited in anti-counterfeiting and trademark litigation.*
- Represented Pennzoil Products Company and Jiffy Lube International in franchise litigation.*
*Matter handled prior to joining our firm.
Hogan Lovells Publications
01 October 2010
"The Ninth Circuit holds that courts may not impose limits on FACTA class certification based on disproportionality or the potential for huge statutory damages." Litigation Alert, Hogan Lovells
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