Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Partner

Daniel Johnson is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice and a member of the Intellectual Property Steering Committee. He is a senior trial lawyer and has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States and before the International Trade Commission, the American Arbitration Association, and Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services. His practice focuses on high-stakes complex litigation, including patent cases, trade secret cases, disputes over software structure and source code, license disputes, and unfair competition and false advertisement disputes.

Some of his most recent cases include:

On January 22, 2007, an ITC Administrative Law Judge recommended the issuance of an exclusion order, on behalf of our client, involving LED technology in the matter of certain high brightness light emitting diodes and products containing same. Mr. Johnson acted as lead trial counsel on this matter.

On November 22, 2006, Mr. Johnson was lead counsel on a patent infringement case, L.G.Philips LCD Co. v. Chunghwa Picture Tubes, U.S. Dist. Ct. for C.D. Cal., that resulted in a jury verdict of $53.5 million—ranking it in the top 100 verdicts in the country—and a finding of willfulness. The Court ordered enhanced damages and granted an injunction.

On July 18, 2005, after a three-week jury trial, Mr. Johnson, representing O2 Micro Technology, obtained a verdict in favor of our client for theft of trade secrets against Monolithic Power Systems (MPS). The jury found that the theft was willful, and the court enhanced the damages. The jury also found that O2 Micro did not infringe either of the patents asserted by MPS and invalidated both MPS patents and all asserted claims and obtained a jury verdict damages on a trade secret cross complaint.

Other significant cases include:

Mr. Johnson represented Compuware in a five-week jury trial venued in the Eastern District of Michigan against IBM. This dispute included claims of theft of trade secrets, antitrust claims, and claims for copyright and patent infringement. The case settled in Compuware's favor on March 31, 2005 for $400 million.

Stansight v. Scientific Atlanta
(breach of license agreement)

McKesson Information Systems Inc. v. Bridge Medical Inc.
(patent infringement case)
 
Boyd v. Global Vision Products
(class action for deceptive trade practices)

SST v. Atmel
(defense of patent infringement)

Sunrise Laser v. ADT
(breach of contract and patent dispute)

RIAA v. Napster
(defense of copyright claim)

Federal Home Loan Bank v. Bell Saving
($260 million real estate fraud)

Mr. Johnson served as a deputy attorney general to the state of California from 1973 to 1976. While a deputy attorney general, he represented Cal State Hayward and obtained a permanent injunction against the NCAA.

Mr. Johnson is recognized as an outstanding trial lawyer by numerous national and international associations and publications, and he is co-author of the Rules of Civil Procedure in Patent Cases for the Northern District of California. He has participated in numerous panels, on behalf of both the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California, on trial advocacy, including the use of multimedia at trial and recent developments in IP law. Mr. Johnson has also been a presenter on panels addressing "Quanta v. LG Electronics," "Preparation of Expert Witnesses in IP Cases," and "Trial of a Patent Case."

Mr. Johnson is admitted to practice in California.