Cecilia Peniza

Cecilia's experience includes representing:

Patent Litigation

• AbbVie, as co-counsel with Latham, in a major biosimilar matter on which she advised on the device patent at issue in the litigation*
• Hyundai and Kia in defending against patent infringement allegations regarding Bluelink, UVO, and airbag systems in Texas and Michigan federal court*
• Alfa Laval in successfully enforcing patents relating to conical-disc separators in Illinois federal court*
• Philips in asserting MPEG technology patents against Hewlett-Packard’s media player and computer products in Virginia federal court*
• Defendants in a patent infringement action involving lab grown diamonds in New York federal court*
• A Korean polyimide film manufacturer in a patent infringement and unfair competition action in California federal court*
• A Korean consumer appliance manufacturer on a patent infringement action involving refrigeration technology in Delaware federal court*

ITC Proceedings

• One of the largest computer and tablet manufacturers in an ITC investigation and related district court actions regarding operating system and touch screen features* 
• A large Korean electronics company in an ITC investigation involving multi-standard video decoding*
• Various respondents in an ITC investigation involving two-way radios and related audio features, including obtaining a favorable decision on new designs*
• Chinese respondents an ITC investigation involving drone technology*
• Chinese respondent Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Design in two ITC cases — one brought by Razor and the other brought by Segway — which included achieving administrative law judge findings of no infringement and no domestic industry after trial in each case and subsequent ITC affirmations*

*Matters handled prior to joining Latham