The firm helps clients pursue cases in US state and federal courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations

Litigation may not be at the front of everyone’s mind in the research commercialisation space, though it can produce memorable stories such as technology giant Apple being ordered to pay $506m to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the tech transfer arm of University of Wisconsin-Madison in July.

Apple, the court found, had infringed the institution’s intellectual property (IP) related to computer processor technology that boosts performance by predicting a user’s input. The corporate said at the time it would appeal…