Clark Stone is a partner in Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Silicon Valley office of Haynes and Boone. He specializes in litigation relating to patents, trademarks, Internet privacy, trade secrets, and business disputes, in federal and state courts and the International Trade Commission (“ITC”). He has handled cases involving semiconductor devices and processing, patent licenses, commercial contracts, online trademark issues, software copyrights, electronic mail, and attorney negligence.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Clark worked in both technical and managerial positions for various semiconductor manufacturing equipment companies, including Applied Materials, Inc., and Novellus Systems, Inc. He has an extensive knowledge of semiconductor devices and manufacturing techniques, plasma etching and deposition, and Internet-related technologies. Clark has served as a volunteer arbitrator for the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Arbitration program since 2002, and also serves as a volunteer arbitrator for the State Bar of California’s Mandatory Fee Arbitration program.
Representative Experience
- Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing techniques assisted client in successfully defending charge of patent infringement
- Defended one of the first cases brought under California's Internet "anti-spam" law, Business and Professions Code §17538.45, obtaining a favorable settlement for client
- Member of trial team which successfully represented a semiconductor device company in a three-week hearing before the International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
- Negotiated a favorable settlement for the client as the petitioner in a trademark cancellation action before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeals Board
Publications
- "HP v. Acceleron: staring up the patent infringement gun barrel without risking your company's life," Lexology, May 4, 2010
Selected Representative Experience
Online Publications
05/09/2011 -
The IP Beacon, May 2011
A Haynes and Boone Newsletter highlighting current issues in Intellectual Property Law.
05/13/2010 -
To Have Committed Inequitable Conduct or Not? That is the Question - to be Answered
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears all U.S. patent infringement appeals, issued an order on April 26, 2010 requesting briefs from the parties in
Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson, and Co. (appeal no. 2008-1511) to consider
en banc the standards by which courts should find “inequitable conduct.”
05/07/2010 -
The IP Beacon, May 2010
A Haynes and Boone Newsletter highlighting current issues in Intellectual Property Law.
05/04/2010 -
Overview of the Proposed Patent Reform Act of 2010
05/04/2010 -
HP v. Acceleron: Staring up the Patent Infringement Gun Barrel Without Risking Your Company’s Life
10/01/2009 -
Software Licenses: Permission vs. Forgiveness and the Law of Unintended Consequences
In a case that may prove to be as serendipitous for struggling software companies as anything else, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote another chapter in the law of unintended consequences with its ruling in
Cincom Systems, Inc. v. Novelis Corp. (published September 25, 2009 pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206: File Name: 09a0346p.06).