Michael P. Padden

Mike Padden is a partner in Levenfeld Pearlstein's Litigation and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. In his 30 years of litigation experience, Mike has successfully represented businesses in a variety of actions, including: patent infringement, trade secrets, tortious interference, breach of contract, breach of fiduciry duties, monopolization, attempted monopolization, price discrimination and exclusive dealing.

His experience spans a broad range of industries, from healthcare and telecommunications to real estate development and beer distribution.

Mike has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as before numerous arbitration tribunals.

Representative matters:

• Successfully prosecuted and defended patent infringement claims involving a variety of technologies, including: drug delivery systems, construction materials, and internet business methods
• Defeated repeated actions to bar a proposed real estate development and established right of a developer to recover damages against a municipality that obtains an improvidently granted preliminary injunction
• Uncovered misappropriation of engineering drawings by client's former employee, leading to favorable settlement in litigation against competitor who hired the former employee
• Successfully defended major mining equipment manufacturer against multi-million dollar breach of warranty claim in international arbitration
• Defeated seven summary judgment motions and obtained summary judgment barring key defenses of laches and estoppel in pharmaceutical patent litigation, leading to settlement after two days of trial
• Successfully defended major telecommunications equipment manufacturer against antitrust and state law claims arising out of dealer termination by removing action from state court and prevailing in preliminary injunction hearing in arbitration