Ian B. Crosby

Ian Crosby is a partner in Susman Godfrey's Seattle office. He represents and tries cases for plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation, most frequently in patent, antitrust, and complex financial matters. Washington Law & Politics Magazine selected Mr. Crosby as a "Rising Star" each year from 2003 to 2009.

Mr. Crosby received his law degree with high honors in 1998 from the University of Texas School of Law. He was a member of the Order of the Coif and Society of Chancellors, recipient of the Norman S. Davis, Clarence Leon Carter, and Locke Purnell Rain Harrell Endowed Presidential Scholarships in Law, and an Editor of the Texas Law Review. He received awards for highest achievement in several subjects, including Patent Litigation and Antitrust.

Mr. Crosby received his undergraduate degree in 1995 from Reed College, where he majored in Philosophy and received a faculty commendation for excellence. He has also studied German at the Goethe Institut in Bremen, Germany, where he received the Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Certificate of German as a Foreign Language) in 1989.

law clerk to the Honorable Robert Boochever on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1999 to 2000,
the Honorable John C. Coughenour, then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, in 1998 and 1999.

• Order of the Coif and Society of Chancellors
• the Norman S. Davis, Clarence Leon Carter, and Locke Purnell Rain Harrell Endowed Presidential Scholarships in Law
• Editor of the Texas Law Review.
• He received awards for highest achievement in several subjects, including Patent Litigation and Antitrust.
• Washington Law & Politics Magazine selected Mr. Crosby as a "Rising Star" each year from 2003 to 2009.

• Author of Worlds in Stone: Gadamer, Heidegger, and Constitutional Originalism, 75 Tex. L. Rev. 849 (1998) Portland's Asset Forfeiture Program: The Effectiveness of Vehicle Seizure in Reducing Rearrest Among "Problem" Drunk Drivers, in Policing in Eastern and Central Europe: Comparing Firsthand Knowledge With Experience of the West (Milan Pagon ed. 1996).
• Mr. Crosby contributes posts on legal, economic, and other topics to The Incidental Economist blog.

• In 2008, Mr. Crosby helped client C2 Communications Technologies, Inc., recover a total of $17.625 million in a patent infringement suit against major telecommunications carriers.   In September 2008, Mr. Crosby tried the case to a jury before the Hon. T. John Ward in the Eastern District of Texas at Marshall against defendants Qwest Communications Corp., Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc., and Level 3 Communications, LLC. The case settled for $9.5 million after the third day of trial, following the close of C2's case-in-chief and Mr. Crosby's cross-examination of the defendants' non-infringement expert. Previously, former defendants AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications, Inc., and Sprint Communications Co., LP, each settled prior to trial for a combined $8.125 million.
• In 2007, Mr. Crosby represented Two-Way Media, LLC, at trial to a jury in a patent case against AOL LLC before the Hon. Hayden Head in the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi. The case settled for a confidential amount after the first week of trial. Mr. Crosby currently represents Two-Way Media in another suit in the same court against defendants Akamai Technologies, Inc., AT&T, Inc., and several AT&T subsidiaries. Limelight Networks, Inc., was also a defendant in that case before it settled with Two-Way Media for a confidential amount in September 2008. Mr. Crosby represents Two-Way Media in a pending suit against AT&T in the Western District of Texas.
• Also in 2007, Mr. Crosby assisted Burst.com in obtaining a $10 million settlement in a patent suit against Apple Inc. in the Northern District of California. From 2006 through 2008, Mr. Crosby helped client Lin Packaging, Ltd., obtain settlements in confidential amounts from chip-makers Samsung, Hynix, Nanya, Infineon, Qimonda, and ProMOS in a series of patent lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas involving microchip-packaging technology.
• Mr. Crosby also assisted in obtaining an $87.5 million settlement on the eve of trial of accounting malpractice claims against auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers in Georgia state court in 2005. Mr. Crosby represented a syndicate of over ninety financial institutions who funded a multi-billion dollar credit facility for Safety-Kleen, Inc., a waste-services company that had defaulted after declaring bankruptcy and withdrawing its audited financial statements.

• Admitted to practice Washington State
• United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Ninth Circuits
• United States District Courts for the Western District of Washington, the District of Maryland, and the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas.

• Lead counsel for AllVoice Developments U.S. LLC in a suit against Microsoft for infringement of patents relating to speech recognition interface technology that was transferred to the Western District of Washington from the Eastern District of Texas.
• Counsel for DDR Holdings LLC in a suit against major online travel companies for infringement of patents related to e-commerce technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
• Counsel for MediusTech LLC and its parent Eagle Harbor Holdings LLC in a suit against Ford Motor Company for infringement of patents related to automotive electronic systems in the Western District of Washington.
• Counsel for Two-Way Media LLC in a suit against AT&T for infringement of patents related to streaming media technology in the Southern District of Texas.
• Counsel for investors in Meridian Mortgage securities against investment advisor Kibble & Prentice for securities violations in an arbitration before the AAA in Seattle, Washington.
• Counsel for Weinberg Electronic Ltd. in an administrative claim against NASA for infringement of an orbital solar array patent by the primary power system of the International Space Station.