Jan Conlin
Jan Conlin
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP
800 Lasalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55402-8500
USA
Jan M. Conlin is a partner with Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. in Minneapolis. Ms. Conlin’s litigation and trial practice is focused in the areas of intellectual property, business, and commercial litigation. Ms. Conlin has been trial counsel on a number of complex patent cases, including the trial of
Honeywell vs. Minolta, involving autofocus patent infringement, and
Pitney Bowes v. Hewlett Packard, in which Pitney Bowes recovered $400 million for patent infringement of a printing patent. In 2005, Ms. Conlin was co-lead counsel in a patent infringement action against Mary Kay Cosmetics involving an alpha hydroxy acid product. Verdict was rendered for the plaintiff in the amount of $26.3M, exclusive of interest. In 2003, Ms. Conlin was trial counsel for the University of California and Eolas Technologies against Microsoft in a patent infringement case involving browser technology. The jury returned a $520 million verdict for the plaintiffs. Last year the Federal Circuit upheld the infringement and damages portion of the case and remanded for a new trial on invalidity. Ms. Conlin graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1988.
Publications:
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Coauthor, "The Patent Files",
Chief Executive,
June 1998
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Coauthor, "Trying the Complex Case in the United States,",
The Litigator, Eng.,
1995
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Coauthor, "Technology in the Courtroom",
Trial,
September 1992