 | Brad P. Engdahl
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
2800 LaSalle Plaza, 800 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-349-8500 (firm)
612-339-4181 (fax)
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Practice Groups
Experience
- Represents clients in the intellectual property area with an emphasis on patent litigation.
- Represents manufacturers in complex products liability and commercial cases throughout the United States as well as
representing injured individuals.
- Has acted as national coordinating counsel for industrial products litigation of a Fortune 500 manufacturer since 1993.
- Has devised and implemented products liability prevention measures.
- Has directed product retrofit programs.
- Has defended Fortune 500 corporations in national false advertising class actions.
Outside Experience
- Special Assistant Attorney General in the Solicitor General and then Tort Litigation divisions, Minnesota Attorney
General's Office. Handled numerous significant tort, constitutional and energy cases at the Minnesota Attorney General's
office. Tried lawsuits on behalf of several state agencies and argued dozens of appeals in the Minnesota Court of Appeals,
Minnesota Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Selected Results*
COMPLEX PATENT LITIGATION
- Represented Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) against Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (Samsung) in a patent infringement litigation venued in the Northern District of California. The case involved allegations that Samsung's DRAM, SRAM and NAND memory products infringed six AMD patents covering technologies in memory architecture, processor micro-architecture, and MOS-transistor fabrication and design; and that AMD's x86 processors and graphics processing units (GPUs) infringed six Samsung patents covering technologies in processor micro-architecture design, and semiconductor fabrication and process control. After nearly three years of litigation and two rounds of mediation the parties resolved the matter shortly before trial, at the close of expert discovery and dispositive motion briefing.
- Intergraph v. Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway: Represented Intergraph Corp. in patent litigation involving microprocessor system design in a case venued in East Texas. Recovered a total of $500 million in settlements as follows:
- Hewlett-Packard $141 million, with cross licenses;
- Dell/Intel $225 million;
- Gateway $12 million plus ongoing royalties;
- AMD $20 million;
- IBM $10 million plus a license to IBM’s portfolio;
- Fujitsu $9.75 million;
- Toshiba and NEC, confidential settlements
Licensing campaign following litigation:
- Fujitsu $9.75 million;
- Sony $15 million;
- Acer $7.5 million; and
- Other confidential licenses
PRODUCTS LIABILITY AND DISASTER LITIGATION
- Has acted as national coordinating counsel for Honeywell industrial products litigation for over five years. Liability
exposure was reduced by aggressively investigating, litigating and, where necessary, trying cases; developing expertise in
products at issue to ensure effective litigation and prevention; employing comprehensive defense strategies to protect the
integrity of the product design and warnings; and devising and implementing prevention measures.
- Represented Honeywell in the First Interstate Bank high-rise fire cases in Los Angeles against claims in excess of $150
million. Honeywell provided the fire and life safety systems and related service.
- Represented Honeywell in the Terra Industries plant explosion against claims in excess of $17.5 million. Honeywell provided the process control system.
- Obtained summary judgment for Honeywell in cases arising out of the largest industrial accident in Mississippi history where the Honeywell controllers provided the final safety line of defense.
- Obtained summary judgment where client's product failed and caused an accident in which plaintiff was rendered quadriplegic and suffered substantial brain damage.
- Obtained summary judgment where OSHA found failure of client's product resulted in plaintiff receiving massive chemical
burns requiring $7 million in medical treatment.
- Resolved at mediation, eight wrongful death cases arising from a plant explosion in South Carolina.
- Obtained the largest known settlement, at the time, for an individual injured by a defectively designed concrete cuber.
CLASS ACTION LITIGATION
- Obtained summary judgment in Chicago, Illinois on behalf of Dow 30 corporations in national false advertising class actions. The result was affirmed on appeal.
- Obtained summary judgment in a national consumer fraud class action involving home security systems.
OTHER LITIGATION
- Obtained summary judgment, which was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in a commercial
contract and tort action.
- Won six-week bench trial in Federal court upholding the Minnesota nursing home rate equalization statute against constitutional and statutory challenges. Successfully argued to sustain the ruling before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
* Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and
does not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon
their own unique fact situation and applicable law.
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Minnesota Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., cum laude (1979)
- University of Minnesota, B.A., summa cum laude
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