Darin Snyder

Darin Snyder began to focus more on IP law in the mid-1990s because of the enormous opportunities created in part by the expanding use of the Internet and related technologies.

Since then, he has served as regional head of litigation for Northern California and as immediate past chair of our intellectual property and technology practice group. Snyder is currently a member of the firm's executive committee and he is head of diversity and Inclusion.

When it comes to his caseload, Snyder is overall coordinating partner for Google, and lead trial counsel for all Google intellectual property matters at O'Melveny.

Recently, he has defended Google, Waze and Samsung against AGIS in multi-front patent litigation that implicated more than 50 Google products and services, and hundreds of Samsung products and services.

"The cases began, like many others, in the Eastern District of Texas, and it looked like the litigation was going to end there with jury trials in 2022," Snyder said. "Instead, we won key victories in the Federal Circuit that halted the Texas litigation just two weeks before trial."

That success caused AGIS to turn to the US International Trade Commission for relief. That gambit failed for AGIS when it withdrew its complaint.

"AGIS tried again with new allegations in Texas and the continued pursuit of District Court claims in California," Snyder said. "After a series of further successes that further limited AGIS's claims, AGIS agreed to settle."

The matter, however, wasn't without its struggles.

"The biggest obstacle in the AGIS case was the successful development and implementation over of a global strategy over a period of years that simultaneously resolved several pending cases for multiple clients and related parties," Snyder said.

He also noted that the growth and sophistication of litigation funding has changed the way in which cases are brought, litigated and resolved.

"This is another recent example of how the law and its administration has to keep up with innovations in the business world," Snyder said.