Karen Boyd thought she’d be handling small pieces of big IP cases when she left Fish & Richardson to start her own firm back in 2008. That didn’t happen. Instead, Boyd says she and partner Julie Turner, who’d come from Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder, stumbled on to another need they could fill: Representing some of the many companies that find themselves rounded up and sued en masse for patent infringement by so-called nonpracticing entities.

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Turner Boyd has won a permanent injunction for Otter Products LLC, makers of the OtterBox line of cases for cellular phones, the first of many expected for OtterBox’s design patent covering the popular Defender Series.

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The District Court for the Northern District of California granted defendant U-Dig-It’s Motion to Transfer on Monday, greatly reducing the financial and logistical strain of litigation on Turner Boyd’s client.

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The District Court for the District of Arizona granted defendant Logitech’s motion to stay on Friday.  Turner Boyd coordinated with reexamination counsel at Kilpatrick Townsend to minimize duplication of effort between the reexamination team and the litigation team, and maximize efficiency for Logitech.  As Judge Roslyn O. Silver noted in her order granting the motion to stay, “[t]he case is still in its early stages, with discovery only recently having begun. Defendants did not move for a stay at an unduly late stage of the proceedings. A stay could potentially avoid an enormous duplication of effort and judicial resources. In these circumstances, a stay is appropriate.”