Zuber & Taillieu

Sarah Brooks is an experienced litigator in Zuber & Taillieu’s litigation department. She practices general commercial litigation and specializes in intellectual property disputes, particularly, patent, trademark, and copyright litigation. Ms. Brooks has handled intellectual property legal disputes for some of the nation’s largest companies across a number of technologies and industries, including pharmaceutical patent litigation, copyright litigation in the fields of software and entertainment, and mechanical patent litigation. Ms. Brooks’ experience includes making appearances and arguing motions in Federal Court, briefing and participating in preliminary injunction motions and Markman hearings, taking and defending depositions, supervising discovery, working with expert witnesses, and participating in dispositive motion hearings. Ms. Brooks began her legal career as an intellectual property attorney in the Litigation Department of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto.

Notable Representations:

• Copyright Infringement Litigation: Represented an author in a copyright infringement litigation involving a derivative work of the author’s well-known book; and
• Patent Infringement Litigation: On behalf of a public pharmaceutical corporation, successfully enforced a patent against another major pharmaceutical corporation, which sought to market an infringing version of client’s long lasting expectorant formulation used to treat congestion. An aggressive discovery schedule led to a favorable settlement before trial, which included admissions by the defendants that the relevant patent was valid, enforceable and infringed; and
• Patent Infringement Litigation: In a case brought against India’s largest pharmaceutical company, successfully obtained summary judgment for a large pharmaceutical corporation, with the Court ruling that the client’s compound patent was not invalid for double patenting and enjoining the F.D.A. from approving the defendant’s application to market its competing product at least until the expiration of the patent.

Professional Honors and Activities:

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers