2006 News | Events

• January

  W|N Promotes Four Attorneys

  W|N announced this week that Attorneys Carl Reed and Fraser Roy have been made equity shareholders and attorneys Brett Hansen and Brett Johnson have been made non-equity shareholders.

• Nine W|N Attorneys Recognized as Among Utah's “Legal Elite”

  Nine W|N attorneys were recognized by their peers as among Utah's "Legal Elite" in the January 2006 issue of Utah Business magazine.

• W|N Again Sponsors the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge

  W|N enters its second year as a major sponsor of the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge run by the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

• April

  W|N Sponsors Giles Rich Moot Court Competition

  This year, Workman | Nydegger, along with six other Utah IP law firms, sponsored the Utah Giles Rich Competition to help prepare teams from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and from the S. J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah for the Western Regional competition.

• W|N Wins Favorable Ruling for ICON Health and Fitness

  On April 3, 2006, U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell upheld a November jury award ordering Nautilus, Inc., the maker of the BowFlex exercise machine, to pay nearly $8 million in false advertising and trademark-infringement damages to Utah’s ICON Health & Fitness.

• May

  W|N Sponsors National Inventors Hall of Fame

  Workman | Nydegger again served as a major sponsor of the 2006 National Inventors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors inventors whose inventions and innovations have singificantly improved and bettered our quality of life. This years inductees include Willard Boyle and George Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device, Vinton Cerfand and Robert Kahn for the invention of Internet Protocol, Robert Gore for the invention of GORE-TEX®, Ali Javan for the invention of a helium-neon laser, Robert Langer, Jr. for the invention of a controlled drug delivery, and Julio Palmaz for the invention of an intravascular stent.

• August

  W|N Wins Jury Verdict In Excess of $100 Million for Finisar

  Led by W|N’s Larry Laycock and with major contributions from David Wright, Charles Roberts, and C.J. Veverka, W|N’s trial team wins a jury verdict in excess of $100 million for Finisar Corporation in a patent infringement case brought against DIRECTV.

• W|N Wins Appeal for ICON Health and Fitness

  W|N wins affirmance at the Federal Circuit of judgment of non-infringement in patent infringement case brought by Nautilus against ICON Health and Fitness.

• October

  W|N Sponsors 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition

  W|N again joined as a sponsor of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition for 2006.

• W|N Becomes a Founding Sponsor of the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship

  W|N joins as a founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship of the BYU Marriott School of Management. The center's mission is to educate, encourage, and support students in understanding how to successfully start and operate new business ventures and to advance entrepreneurship internationally. Founders of the center provide support in teaching and mentoring students, providing research opportunities, and in giving financial support to the center.

• W|N Joins as a Sponsor of the Arthritis Foundation's Annual Evening of Honors

  Proceeds of this event support the Arthritis Foundation's local programs such as, patient services, public education, and professional education and research.

• November

  W|N Client Finisar Corporation Ranked No. 1 on IEEE Spectrum List of Patent Power Tech Businesses

  IEEE Spectrum magazine, the flagship publication of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.), has ranked Finisar Corporation, a technology leader in fiber optic and test and measurement solutions for high-speed data networks, No. 1 on its “Patent Power” list for the telecommunications equipment industry for 2005.

• December

  W|N Welcomed Ten New Associates in 2006

  During 2006, W|N hired ten new associates: F. Chad Copier, Kulaniakea Fisher, Tom M. Bonacci, Paul G. Johnson, Gregory R. Lunt, Sam J. Barkley, Ph.D., Ronald J. Ward, Amber B. Leavitt, Jeffery M. Lillywhite, and Heather G. Manwaring.