Overview
Dinis Cheian litigates complex commercial matters in courts across the nation. He has worked on cases in a variety of practice areas including intellectual property, class actions, administrative law, insurance, business disputes, oil & gas, power electronics, life sciences, artificial intelligence & machine learning, and financial technology.
Dinis recently helped secure an $18.8 million settlement on behalf of Pascal Metrics in its trade secret misappropriation suit against Health Catalyst in Delaware Superior Court. Pascal, a healthcare analytics company, developed algorithms or “triggers” to identify adverse health events in hospital patients, which defendants used to develop a competing product. Dinis played a key role in litigation, notably deposing defendant’s CFO and corporate representative, thus securing key admissions to support Pascal’s damages model. Dinis also successfully argued a motion to compel documents that resulted in Pascal obtaining favorable evidence. Minutes before Dinis was set to argue the motions in limine, the case settled favorably.
Dinis prosecuted claims of patent infringement on behalf of Repeat Precision in a litigation related to fracking tools. Dinis took the lead on drafting and arguing the majority of the motions in the case. At trial, Dinis cross-examined the opponent’s VP of Product Management, a key witness. While the jury found no infringement, it did find Repeat Precision’s patent valid. Dinis’s team is now challenging the non-infringement verdict.
Dinis joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Dinis previously spent five years in the Intellectual Property group of a top law firm as a Technical Advisor and Patent Agent.
Dinis holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Honors & Distinctions
Honors and Awards
- Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law School
- Tau Beta Pi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clerkships
- Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Education
Education
- Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (M.Eng.; B.S., Tau Beta Pi)
Admissions
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Publications
- I See Dead Patents: How Bugs in the Patent System Keep Expired Patents Alive, 33 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. (2022).
- Exploring Patent Practitioners’ Duty to Correct Excess Patent Term Adjustment, IP Watchdog (Oct. 20, 2022).
- Patent Litigators and Patent Lawyers Representing Generic Pharmaceutical Companies Should Be on the Lookout for Patent Office’s PTA Calculation Mistakes, Chicago IP Litigation (Oct. 21, 2022).
Languages
Languages
- French
- Romanian
- Russian
