Columbia University is seeking to submit new testimony in an appeal where the university is defending a nearly-$300 million contempt ruling against lawyers at white shoe law firm Quinn Emanuel.
Quinn represented Gen Digital Inc., formerly NortonLifeLock, in a district court case where it was sued by the Ivy League school in 2013 for infringing its patented computer security technology. A jury in 2022 found that Norton owed Columbia $185 million for its infringement of two university patents. A federal district judge in Virginia later enhanced the award by $296 million, after finding Norton’s lawyers had prevented a French computer ...